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The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940

The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940

Davis, Allen F.
Haller, Mark H.

Paperback

Series: Pennsylvania Paperbacks

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0812216709
ISBN13: 9780812216707
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 29 1998
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history, the authors draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which these less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived. What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.

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