{"product_id":"the-peoples-of-philadelphia-9780812216707","title":"The Peoples of Philadelphia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city, corrupt and contented. The men and women of Philadelphia who emerge in these pages are anything but staid, and certainly not contented.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Just the kind of book that is needed. It should be stimulating to all historians interested in urban America.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the 1998 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Poverty, Fear, and Continuity: An Analysis of the Poor in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Residential Mobility Within the Nineteenth-Century City\u003cbr\u003e 3. Urbanization as a Cause of Violence: Philadelphia as a Test Case\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fire Companies and Gangs in Southwark: The 1840s\u003cbr\u003e 5. Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840-70\u003cbr\u003e 6. Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Philadelphia Irish: Persistent Presence\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"A Peaceful City\": Public Order in Philadelphia from Consolidation Through the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e 9. Housing the Poor in the City of Homes: Philadelphia at the Turn of the Century\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Immigrant and the City: Poles, Italians, and Jews in Philadelphia, 1870-1920\u003cbr\u003e 11. Philadelphia's Jewish Neighborhoods\u003cbr\u003e 12. Philadelphia's South Italians in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 13. Recurring Themes\u003cbr\u003e Suggested Readings\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405691658583,"sku":"9780812216707","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812216707.jpg?v=1730493293","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-peoples-of-philadelphia-9780812216707","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}