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Life in Early Philadelphia
Documents from the Revolutionary and Early National Periods
Häftad, 1995
404 kr
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The meaning of American history has rarely been contested more fiercely than during the current "culture wars" as Americans battle to define their past. Life in Early Philadelphia can contribute much to a reasoned discussion by giving readers the rare opportunity to interpret and reconstruct life …
Down and Out in Early America
Häftad, 2004
462 kr
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It has often been said that early America was the "best poor man’s country in the world." After all, wasn’t there an abundance of land and a scarcity of laborers? The law of supply and demand would seem to dictate that most early American working people enjoyed high wages and a decent material …
Infortunate
The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant
Av Susan E. Klepp, Billy G. Smith
Häftad, 2005
297 kr
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First published by Penn State Press in 1992, The Infortunate has become a staple for teachers and students of American history. William Moraley’s firsthand account of bound servitude provides a rare glimpse of life among the lower classes in England and the American colonies during the eighteenth …
"Lower Sort"
Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750–1800
Inbunden, 1990
739 kr
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This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of …
"Lower Sort"
Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750–1800
Häftad, 1994
475 kr
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This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of …
Class Matters
Early North America and the Atlantic World
Av Simon Middleton, Billy G. Smith
E-bok, 2011
504 kr
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As a category of historical analysis, class is dead-or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the …
Class Matters
Early North America and the Atlantic World
Av Simon Middleton, Billy G. Smith
Häftad, 2010
402 kr
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As a category of historical analysis, class is dead-or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the …
Blacks Who Stole Themselves
Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-179
Av Billy G. Smith, Richard Wojtowicz
Inbunden, 1989
1119 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Blacks Who Stole Themselves
Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-179
Av Billy G. Smith, Richard Wojtowicz
E-bok, 2016
1376 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press''s distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Ship of Death
A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2013
369 kr
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How a ship of British idealists sailed to Africa to end the slave trade but instead ignited a yellow fever pandemicIt is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This extraordinary book …
