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The Lower Sort Philadelphia's Laboring People 17501880
Author: Billy G. Smith
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,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801481635
ISBN-10: 0801481635
Publication Date: 1/1994
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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