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In Union There Is Strength : Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation / Andrew Heath.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: America in the Nineteenth CenturyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 9 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812295818
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 974.8/11 23
LOC classification:
  • F158.44
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction. Philadelphia in an Age of Consolidation -- Chapter 1. “A Great City Is a Great Study” -- Chapter 2. “The Guilty and Blood-Stained City”: Radicals and the Second American Republic -- Chapter 3. “The Manifest Destiny of Philadelphia”: Making Antebellum Growth Politics -- Chapter 4.. “To Give Shape to the Destinies of Our City: Molding the Metropolis -- Chapter 5. Out of Many, One: Remaking the Polity -- Chapter 6. Consolidating City and Nation: Philadelphia in Civil War and Reconstruction -- Chapter 7. Philadelphia Redeemed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. As slavery and territorial conquest forced Americans to ponder a similar looming disunion at the national level, Philadelphians searched for ways to hold their city together across internal social and sectional divisions—a project of consolidation that reshaped their city into the boundaries we know today.A bold new interpretation of a crucial period in Philadelphia's history, In Union There Is Strength examines the social and spatial reconstruction of an American city in the decades on either side of the American Civil War. Andrew Heath follows Philadelphia's fortunes over the course of forty years as industrialization, immigration, and natural population growth turned a Jacksonian-era port with a population of two hundred thousand into a Gilded Age metropolis containing nearly a million people.Heath focuses on the utopian socialists, civic boosters, and municipal reformers who argued that the path to urban greatness lay in the harmonious consolidation of jarring interests rather than in the atomistic individualism we have often associated with the nineteenth-century metropolis. Their rival visions drew them into debates about the reach of local government, the design of urban space, the character of civic life, the power of corporations, and the relations between labor and capital—and ultimately became entangled with the question of national union itself. In tracing these links between city-making and nation-making in the mid-nineteenth century, In Union There Is Strength shows how its titular rallying cry inspired creative, contradictory, and fiercely contested ideas about how to design, build, and live in a metropolis.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction. Philadelphia in an Age of Consolidation -- Chapter 1. “A Great City Is a Great Study” -- Chapter 2. “The Guilty and Blood-Stained City”: Radicals and the Second American Republic -- Chapter 3. “The Manifest Destiny of Philadelphia”: Making Antebellum Growth Politics -- Chapter 4.. “To Give Shape to the Destinies of Our City: Molding the Metropolis -- Chapter 5. Out of Many, One: Remaking the Polity -- Chapter 6. Consolidating City and Nation: Philadelphia in Civil War and Reconstruction -- Chapter 7. Philadelphia Redeemed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. As slavery and territorial conquest forced Americans to ponder a similar looming disunion at the national level, Philadelphians searched for ways to hold their city together across internal social and sectional divisions—a project of consolidation that reshaped their city into the boundaries we know today.A bold new interpretation of a crucial period in Philadelphia's history, In Union There Is Strength examines the social and spatial reconstruction of an American city in the decades on either side of the American Civil War. Andrew Heath follows Philadelphia's fortunes over the course of forty years as industrialization, immigration, and natural population growth turned a Jacksonian-era port with a population of two hundred thousand into a Gilded Age metropolis containing nearly a million people.Heath focuses on the utopian socialists, civic boosters, and municipal reformers who argued that the path to urban greatness lay in the harmonious consolidation of jarring interests rather than in the atomistic individualism we have often associated with the nineteenth-century metropolis. Their rival visions drew them into debates about the reach of local government, the design of urban space, the character of civic life, the power of corporations, and the relations between labor and capital—and ultimately became entangled with the question of national union itself. In tracing these links between city-making and nation-making in the mid-nineteenth century, In Union There Is Strength shows how its titular rallying cry inspired creative, contradictory, and fiercely contested ideas about how to design, build, and live in a metropolis.

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In English.

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