The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People 1750-1880. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, 1994
- Softcover
- Used
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Condition: Used - Good
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Item description from seller
Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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- Title
- The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People 1750-1880
- Author
- Billy Gordon Smith
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801481635
- ISBN 13
- 9780801481635
This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.
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