First city
Subtitle: Philadelphia and the forging of historical memory
By: Gary B. Nash.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Historic preservation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Memory -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Historiography; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Societies, etc; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Historiography; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Societies, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction Making History Matter i; title: Chapter 1 Pieces of the Colonial Past 14; title: Chapter 2 Recalling a Commercial Seaport 45; title: Chapter 3 The Revolution's Many Faces 79; title: Chapter 4 A New Cityfor a New Nation Io8; title: Chapter 5 A City in Flux 144; title: Chapter 6 Reforming Philadelphia I76; title: Chapter 7 In Civil War and Reconstruction 223; title: Chapter 8 workshop of the world, Schoolhouse of History 26I; title: Chapter 9 Restoring Memory 314.