Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of the region in creating the American middle class, the regional watershed, and the way art and cultural institutions have given shape to a resident identity.
Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of the region in creating the American middle class, the regional watershed, and the way art and cultural institutions have given shape to a resident identity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
A native Philadelphian, Steven Conn is coeditor (with Max Page) of Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape, winner of the Noble Book Award of the Pioneer America Society and available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Conn contributes regularly to the Philadelphia Inquirer and City Paper.
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Prologue: The Naked City 1. Echoes of William Penn 2. The Ghosts That Haunt Us 3. The Delaware Valley Makes the Middle Class 4. Two Rivers Run Through It 5. In the Mind's Eye: Imagining the Philadelphia Region Epilogue: The Naked City and the Story of Decline Notes Index Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Naked City 1. Echoes of William Penn 2. The Ghosts That Haunt Us 3. The Delaware Valley Makes the Middle Class 4. Two Rivers Run Through It 5. In the Mind's Eye: Imagining the Philadelphia Region Epilogue: The Naked City and the Story of Decline Notes Index Acknowledgments
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