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John Henry Hepp, IV The Middle-Class City (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- The Middle-Class City
- Publication Name
- Middle-Class City : Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926
- Title
- The Middle-Class City
- Subtitle
- Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0812237234
- EAN
- 9780812237238
- ISBN
- 9780812237238
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Genre
- History
- Release Year
- 2003
- Release Date
- 11/08/2003
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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The classic 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 this 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. According to Hepp, this period was rife with evidence of creative reorganization that served to mold middle-class life. The department store was more than just an expanded dry goods emporium; it was a middle-class haven of order in the heart of a frenetic city--an entirely new way of organizing merchandise for sale. Redesigned newspapers brought well-ordered news and entertainment to middle-class homes and also carried retail advertisements to entice consumers downtown via train and streetcar. The complex interiors of urban railroad stations reflected a rationalization of space, and rail schedules embodied the modernized specialization of standard time. In his fascinating investigation of similar patterns of behavior among commercial institutions, Hepp exposes an important intersection between the histories of the city and the middle class. In his careful reconstruction of this now vanished culture, Hepp examines a wide variety of sources, including diaries and memoirs left by middle-class women and men of the region. Following Philadelphians as they rode trains and trolleys, read newspapers, and shopped at department stores, he uses their accounts as individualized guidebooks to middle-class life in the metropolis. And through a creative use of photographs, floor plans, maps, and material culture, The Middle-Class City helps to reconstruct the physical settings of these enterprises and recreate everyday middle-class life, shedding new light on an underanalyzed historical group and the cultural history of twentieth-century America.
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812237234
ISBN-13
9780812237238
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2500968
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Middle-Class City : Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ht690.U6h46 2003
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"Hepp examines areas of everyday living as opposed to the more traditional studies of politics, focusing on transportation, newspapers, department stores, and parks. This is a very thorough study of several broad social phenomena and those affected by these changes."--Choice, "A real contribution to the history of the city in general and Philadelphia in particular."- Journal of Interdisciplinary History, "A real contribution to the history of the city in general and Philadelphia in particular."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Hepp examines areas of everyday living as opposed to the more traditional studies of politics, focusing on transportation, newspapers, department stores, and parks. This is a very thorough study of several broad social phenomena and those affected by these changes., "Hepp examines areas of everyday living as opposed to the more traditional studies of politics, focusing on transportation, newspapers, department stores, and parks. This is a very thorough study of several broad social phenomena and those affected by these changes."- Choice, "Hepp examines areas of everyday living as opposed to the more traditional studies of politics, focusing on transportation, newspapers, department stores, and parks. This is a very thorough study of several broad social phenomena and those affected by these changes."-- Choice, "A real contribution to the history of the city in general and Philadelphia in particular."-- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Table of Content
Preface Introduction: A Revised and Enlarged Philadelphia PART I. LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILADELPHIA Prelude: I Went Out to the Centennial 1. The Most Traversed City by Railways in This Country, If Not the World 2. Such a Well-Behaved Train Station 3. A Pretty Friendly Sort of Place 4. A Sober Paper Interlude: Went to Willow Grove PART II. EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILADELPHIA The New Century: The Magnificent Metropolis of Today 5. If Dad Could Not Get . . . the Evening Bulletin It Was Practically the End of the World 6. We Never Realized That Department Stores Had an Upstairs 7. One Great Big Stretch of Middle Class Postlude: Albion and I Went to the Sesqui Conclusion: The Trouble with History Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Industries / Retailing, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Journalism, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
Lccn
2003-041001
Dewey Decimal
974.811041
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science, Political Science
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