The middle-class city : transforming space and time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926

Summary: "The classical historical interpretation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America sees this period as a political search for order by the middle class, culminating in Progressive Era reforms. In The Middle Class City, John Hepp, examines transformations in everyday middle-class life in Philadelphia between 1876 and 1926 to discover the cultural roots of his search for order. By looking at complex relationships among members of that city's middle class and three largely bourgeois commercial institutions - newspapers, department stores, and railroads - Hepp finds that the men and women of the middle class consistently reordered their world along rational lines."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780812237238
ISBN: 0812237234
ISBN: 9780812204056
ISBN: 0812204050
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, �2003.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	A revised and enlarged Philadelphia -- I: Late nineteenth-century Philadelphia -- Prelude: I went out to the centennial -- 1. The most traversed city by railways in this country, if not the world -- 2. Such a well-behaved train station -- 3. A pretty friendly sort of place -- 4. A sober paper -- Interlude: Went to willow grove -- II: Early twentieth-century Philadelphia -- The new century: the magnificent metropolis of today -- 5. If dad could not get ... the Evening Bulletin it was practically the end of the world -- 6. We never realized that department stores had an upstairs -- 7. One great big stretch of middle class -- Postlude: Albion and I went to the Sesqui -- The trouble with history.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.