Kristen A. Foster

Gebundenes Buch

Moral Visions and Material Ambitions

Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776-1836

Beschreibung

This study explores the ways Philadelphians used the Revolution and its powerful language of liberty and equality to impose meaning on their lives, as an expanding market irreversibly changed social and economic relationships in their city, and eventually the rest of the country.

Autor

A. Kristen Foster is assistant professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Dr. Foster is a graduate of Williams College and earned her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has been a Mellon Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Her dissertation, upon which this book is based, was a finalist for the Pauline Maier Price in American History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9780739107584
• ISBN-10: 0739107585
• Artikelnr.: 26183638