First City : : Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory /

First City : : Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory / / Gary B. Nash.

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With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents...

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Nash, Gary B.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2002
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 134 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Making History Matter
  • Chapter 1. Pieces Of The Colonial Past
  • Chapter 2. Recalling A Commercial Seaport
  • Chapter 3. The Revolution'S Many Faces
  • Chapter 4. A New City For A New Nation
  • Chapter 5. A City In Flux
  • Chapter 6. Reforming Philadelphia
  • Chapter 7. In Civil War And Reconstruction
  • Chapter 8. Workshop Of The World, Schoolhouse Of History
  • Chapter 9. Restoring Memory
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Permissions

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