In Union There Is Strength : : Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation / / Andrew Heath.
In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegrat...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | America in the Nineteenth Century
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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