Peoples of Philadelphia
Subtitle: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower Class Life, 1790-1940
Contributors: Mark H. Haller (Editor)
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Published: June 1973
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780877220350
Subjects: Social conditions; Congresses; Philadelphia (Pa.); History; Minorities; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia
First sentence: Sam Bass Warner in his important study of eighteenth-century Philadelphia maintained that the city had an "open society and economy" and that "prosperity" was "commonplace."