Urban Village
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Acculturation
Author_Stephanie G. Wolf
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Burial
Calvinism
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Cemetery
City block
Cloister
Community association
Court of record
Crevasse
Culprit
Cyclades
Deed
Direct tax
Disorderly house
Early Period
Emigration
Entrepreneurship
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Extended family
Fertility
Francis Daniel Pastorius
Freedom of religion
Germantown Academy
Gold coin
Government
Great Leap Forward
Heir apparent
His Family
Household
Huguenot
Justice of the peace
Knossos
Laborer
Laity
Longevity
Lutheranism
Melting pot
Mennonite
Monthly meeting
Nationality
Needlework
New England town
Newspaper
Nuclear family
Pennsylvania
Percentage
Philadelphia County
Philippines
Pliny the Elder
Poorhouse
Quakers
Quarry
Remarriage
Requirement
Sect
State religion
Supervisor
Tax
Tenement
The Other Hand
The Reverend
Theft
Times New Roman
Tradesman
Trastevere
Urban village
Urbanization
Value Change
Wealth
Product details
- ISBN 9780691005904
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 1980
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, Stephanie Grauman Wolf 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. Germantown, Pennsylvania, was chosen for study because it was a small urban center characterized by an ethnically and religiously mixed population of high mobility. The author uses quantitative analysis and sample case study to examine all aspects of the community. She finds that heterogeneity and mobility had a marked effect on urban development--on landholding, occupation, life style, and related areas; community organization for the control of government and church affairs; and the structure and demographic development of the: family.
Her work represents an important advance not only in our understanding of eighteenth-century American society, but also in the ways in which we investigate it.
