{"product_id":"the-peoples-of-philadelphia-a-history-of-ethnic-groups-and-lower-class-life-1790-1940-paperback-softback-9780812216707","title":"The Peoples of Philadelphia; A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812216707","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Peoples of Philadelphia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAllen F. Davis (Edited by), Mark H. Haller (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812216707\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 October 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Just the kind of book that is needed. It should be stimulating to all historians interested in urban America.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlthough much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history, the authors draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which these less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived. What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the 1998 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Poverty, Fear, and Continuity: An Analysis of the Poor in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Residential Mobility Within the Nineteenth-Century City\u003cbr\u003e 3. Urbanization as a Cause of Violence: Philadelphia as a Test Case\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fire Companies and Gangs in Southwark: The 1840s\u003cbr\u003e 5. Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840-70\u003cbr\u003e 6. Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Philadelphia Irish: Persistent Presence\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"A Peaceful City\": Public Order in Philadelphia from Consolidation Through the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e 9. Housing the Poor in the City of Homes: Philadelphia at the Turn of the Century\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Immigrant and the City: Poles, Italians, and Jews in Philadelphia, 1870-1920\u003cbr\u003e 11. Philadelphia's Jewish Neighborhoods\u003cbr\u003e 12. Philadelphia's South Italians in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 13. Recurring Themes\u003cbr\u003e Suggested Readings\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555678548248,"sku":"9780812216707","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-peoples-of-philadelphia-a-history-of-ethnic-groups-and-lower-class-life-1790-1940-paperback-softback-9780812216707","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}