In union there is strength : Philadelphia in the age of urban consolidation /
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 reve...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | America in the nineteenth century.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; 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; A; B
- CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Acknowledgments