Main entry:

Hepp, John Henry.

Title & Author:

The middle-class city : transforming space and time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926 / John Henry Hepp IV.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.

Description:

ix, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index.
A revised and enlarged Philadelphia -- 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 -- 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 -- The trouble with history.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The classical 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 his 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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0812237234 (acid-free paper)
9780812237238 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Middle class Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.
Cities and towns Pennsylvania Philadelphia Growth.
City planning Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.
Department stores Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.
Transportation Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.
Newspaper reading History.
Villes Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Croissance.
Grands magasins Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire.
Journaux Lecture Histoire.
Cities and towns Growth
City planning
Department stores
Manners and customs
Middle class
Newspaper reading
Transportation
Stadtplanung
Infrastruktur
Stadscultuur.
Middenklassen.
Ruimtelijke ordening.
City planning Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Department stores Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Urban transportation Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Social life and customs.
Philadelphie (Penns.) Mœurs et coutumes.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pa.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228519
Call No.: HT690.U6 H46 2003
Status: Available