Kristen A. Foster

Moral Visions and Material Ambitions

Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776-1836

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Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the ways Philadelphians used the Revolution and its powerful language of liberty and equality to impose meaning on their lives, as an expanding market irreversibly changed social and economic relationships in their city, and eventually the rest of the country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9780739135327
• ISBN-10: 0739135325
• Artikelnr.: 25906540

Autorenporträt

A. Kristen Foster is assistant professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Dr. Foster is a graduate of Williams College and earned her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has been a Mellon Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Her dissertation, upon which this book is based, was a finalist for the Pauline Maier Price in American History.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Revolutionary War and the Development of Republican
Ideologies in Philadelphia Chapter 2 Tension in the Artisan Shop: The
Deterioration of a Most Republican Relationship Chapter 3 From Journeymen
to Workingmen: Philadelphia Forges an "Iron Chain of Bondage" Chapter 4 All
Things in Moderation: Philadelphia's Middling Sort Builds a Hybrid
Republican Culture and Its Own Class Identity Chapter 5 On the Margins of
Republican Citizenship: Moderate Beginnings