Making the early modern metropolis : culture and power in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia

Johnson, Daniel P. 1974- (author.).

Summary: "In Making the Early Modern Metropolis, Daniel P. Johnson takes a thematic approach to Philadelphia's related economic, legal, and popular cultures to provide a comprehensive view of its urban development, taking readers into this colonial city's homes, workshops, taverns, courtrooms, and public spaces. Philadelphia's evolution, Johnson argues, can only be understood by situating it within an explicitly early modern and Atlantic framework to show that inherited beliefs, which originated in late medieval and Renaissance Europe, informed urban social and cultural developments"--

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ISBN: 9780813945415
ISBN: 9780813945408
ISBN: 9780813945422
ISBN: 0813945429
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I. Labor and Economy -- "Nothing Will Satisfy You but Money": Community, Credit, and the Politics of Money -- "A Great Number of Hands": Property, Empire, and Unfree Labor -- Part II. Law and Disorder -- "Unintelligible Stuff Called Law": Cultural Legalism and Authority in the City -- "A Growing Evil in the City": Law, Crime, and the Atlantic Diaspora -- Part III. Spaces of Pleasure and Danger -- Order, the People, and the Press: The Urban Battle of Ideas -- Polite Spaces and Nurseries of Vice: Place, Disorder, and Cultural Practice.
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