Title: The middle-class city
Description: "The classical historical interpretation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America sees this period as a political search for order by the middle class, culminating in Progressive Era reforms. In The Middle Class City, John Hepp, examines transformations in everyday middle-class life in Philadelphia between 1876 and 1926 to discover the cultural roots of his search for order. By looking at complex relationships among members of that city's middle class and three largely bourgeois commercial institutions - newspapers, department stores, and railroads - Hepp finds that the men and women of the middle class consistently reordered their world along rational lines."--Jacket.
Subjects: Cities and towns, City planning, Department stores, Growth, History, Middle class, Newspaper reading, Social life and customs, Urban transportation, Middle class, united states, Cities and towns, united states, City planning, united states, Philadelphia (pa.), history, Philadelphia (pa.), social life and customs, Transportation
Places: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Pa.)