First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory by Gary B. Nash

First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory

Early American Studies

Gary B. Nash

385 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. ...

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