In Union There Is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation by Andrew Heath

In Union There Is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation

America in the Nineteenth Century

Andrew Heath

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In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to...

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