Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683-1800

by Stephanie Grauman Wolf

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691046328
• ISBN13: 9780691046327
• Release Date: February 1977
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.