Making the Early Modern Metropolis: Culture and Power in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia - Couverture souple

Johnson, Daniel P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813945410 ISBN 13 : 9780813945415

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2022

Synopsis

Philadelphia was the most dynamic city in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America. In Making the Early Modern Metropolis, Daniel Johnson takes a thematic approach to Philadelphia's related economic, legal, and popular cultures to provide a comprehensive view of its urban development, taking readers into this colonial city's homes, workshops, taverns, courtrooms, and public spaces to provide a detailed exploration of how everyday struggles shaped the city's growth.

Philadelphia's evolution, Johnson argues, can only be understood by situating it within an explicitly early modern and Atlantic framework to show that inherited beliefs, which originated in late medieval and Renaissance Europe, informed urban social and cultural developments. Until now, histories of early Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania at large, have emphasized its novel commitment to liberal and modern religious, economic, and political principles. Making the Early Modern Metropolis reveals that it was in the interplay of inherited and often competing systems of belief during a period of profound transformation throughout the Atlantic world that early modern cities like Philadelphia were shaped.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel P. Johnson is Assistant Professor of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813945410
• ISBN 13: 9780813945415
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 298
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