In Union There Is Strength

In Union There Is Strength

Einband:
Fester Einband
EAN:
9780812251111
Untertitel:
Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation
Genre:
Geschichte
Autor:
Andrew Heath
Herausgeber:
University Of Pennsylvania Press
Anzahl Seiten:
296
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.02.2019
ISBN:
978-0-8122-5111-1

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Heath teaches American history at the University of Sheffield. Klappentext Andrew Heath teaches American history at the University of Sheffield. Zusammenfassung Andrew Heath shows how Philadelphians looked to consolidate their city across internal social and sectional divisions as the republic fell apart in the Civil War era. Rallying to the cry "In Union There Is Strength!" their battles over what a modern metropolis ought to be reveals how a city of mobs became a city of neighborhoods. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Introduction. Philadelphia in an Age of Consolidation Chapter 1. "A Great City Is a Great Study" Chapter 2. "The Guilty and Blood-Stained City": Radicals and the Second American Republic Chapter 3. "The Manifest Destiny of Philadelphia": Making Antebellum Growth Politics Chapter 4. "To Give Shape to the Destinies of Our City": Molding the Metropolis Chapter 5. Out of Many, One: Remaking the Polity Chapter 6. Consolidating City and Nation: Philadelphia in Civil War and Reconstruction Chapter 7. Philadelphia Redeemed Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

Autorentext
Andrew Heath teaches American history at the University of Sheffield.

Klappentext
Andrew Heath teaches American history at the University of Sheffield.

Zusammenfassung
Andrew Heath shows how Philadelphians looked to consolidate their city across internal social and sectional divisions as the republic fell apart in the Civil War era. Rallying to the cry "In Union There Is Strength," their battles over what a modern metropolis ought to be reveals how a city of mobs became a city of neighborhoods.

Inhalt
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. Philadelphia in an Age of Consolidation
Chapter 1. "A Great City Is a Great Study"
Chapter 2. "The Guilty and Blood-Stained City": Radicals and the Second American Republic
Chapter 3. "The Manifest Destiny of Philadelphia": Making Antebellum Growth Politics
Chapter 4. "To Give Shape to the Destinies of Our City": Molding the Metropolis
Chapter 5. Out of Many, One: Remaking the Polity
Chapter 6. Consolidating City and Nation: Philadelphia in Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 7. Philadelphia Redeemed
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments


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