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Prominent and Progressive Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century
Prominent and Progressive Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century
Prominent and Progressive Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century
Prominent and Progressive Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century
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Published: 2006-07-01
Total Pages: 2630
ISBN-13: 9780740454530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pennsylvania Biographies
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The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball
Author: Jerrold I. Casway
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0786498900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Evolving in an urban landscape, professional baseball attracted a dedicated fan base among the inhabitants of major cities, including ethnic and racial minorities, for whom the game was a vehicle for assimilation. But to what extent were these groups welcomed within the world of baseball, and what effect did their integration--or, as in the case of African Americans, their ultimate inability to integrate--have on the culture of a pastime that had recently become a national obsession? How did their mutual striving for acceptance affect relations between these minorities? (In deep and long-lasting ways, as it turns out.) This book provides a carefully considered portrait of baseball as both a sporting profession--one with quick-changing rules and roles--and as an institution that reinforced popular ideas about cultural identity, masculinity and American exceptionalism.
Founding Families Of Pittsburgh
Author: Joseph F Rishel
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2005-06-15
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0822972786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that Pittsburgh's elite upper class succeeded in creating the institutions needed to sustain a local aristocracy and possessed the ability to adapt its accumulated advantages to social and economic changes.
Social Structure and Social Mobility
Author: Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 113560438X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1996. Volume 7 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY of the ‘American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 7 looks at social class structure and social mobility. Its articles address questions that have intrigued historians for decades. What has been the class structure of American cities during the past two centuries? How much mobility has been possible? For whom has it been possible? What has been the relationship between social and geographic mobility? Finally, how have all kinds of Americans tried to improve their social status?
Pennsylvania Dutch & Other Essays
Author: Phebe Earle Gibbons
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780811729024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1869 and 1882, Phebe Earle Gibbons, a Pennsylvania Quaker, wrote down her first-hand observations of the lifestyles and customs of the Pennsylvania Dutch groups that surrounded her -- the Amish, Mennonites, Moravians, Schwenkfelders -- as well as English Quakers and Welsh and Irish miners of Scranton. She described their weddings, funerals, religious practices, social gatherings, family life, folk beliefs, and holidays. This new edition of Gibbons's classic work includes a new introduction by Don Yoder which discusses the significance of the book and the life of its author.
