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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691005907
• ISBN13: 9780691005904
• Release Date: May 1980
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"