Making The Early Modern Metropolis: Culture And Power In Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia (Early American Histories) - 9780813945415

Part I. Labor and Economy -- "Nothing Will Satisfy You but Money": Community, Credit, and the Politics of Money -- "A Great Number of Hands": Property, Empire, and Unfree Labor -- Part II. Law and Disorder -- "Unintelligible Stuff Called Law": Cultural Legalism and Authority in the City -- "A Growing Evil in the City": Law, Crime, and the Atlantic Diaspora -- Part III. Spaces of Pleasure and Danger -- Order, the People, and the Press: The Urban Battle of Ideas -- Polite Spaces and Nurseries of Vice: Place, Disorder, and Cultural Practice.

• | Author: Daniel P. Johnson
• | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 22, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 298 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813945410
• | ISBN-13: 9780813945415