The Private City

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Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History. "Packed with suggestive historical detail."--

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Acknowledgments
Intorduction to the Second Edition
The Eighteenth-Century Town
The Environment of Private Opportunity
War and the Limits of the Tradition
The Big City 1830-1860
Spatial Patterns of Rapid Growth
Industrialization
The Specialization of Leadership
Municipal Institutions
Riots and the Restoration of Public Order
The Industrial Metropolis
The Structure of the Metropolis
Some Metropolitan Districts
The Industrial Metropolis as an Inheritance Bibliography of Recent Philadelphia Books
Notes to Tables in Text
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