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The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750–1800 (Cornell Paperbacks)

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The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750–1800 (Cornell Paperbacks)
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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.
Country USA
Brand Cornell University Press
Manufacturer Cornell University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 65
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780801481635
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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Country	USA
Brand	Cornell University Press
Manufacturer	Cornell University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	65
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780801481635
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00