Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683-1800
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683-1800
By (Author) Stephanie G. Wolf
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th July 1980
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
978.11
Physical Properties
Paperback
374
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
454g
Description
Most studies of eighteenth-century community life in America have focused on New England, and in many respects the New England town has become a model for our understanding of communities throughout the United States during this period. In this study of a mid-Atlantic town, the author describes a very different way of organizing society, indicating that the New England model may prove atypical. In addition, her analysis suggests the origins of twentieth-century social patterns in eighteenth-century life.
Reviews
"A pioneering American community study... [It] provides a vivid sense of the lives of its people. Beyond the methodological creativity and its conceptual coherence, it touches always the pulse of daily dilemmas and desires."--American Historical Review
