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The Greater Philadelphia Region: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1

The Greater Philadelphia Region: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1

Adams, Carolyn T.
Gillette, Howard, Jr.

Hardcover

Dictionaries & EncyclopediasGeneral SociologyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $44.95

ISBN10: 1512826049
ISBN13: 9781512826043
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 368
Weight: 3.09
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.60 Depth: 11.20
Language: English

Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.

As early as the 1890s, the term Greater Philadelphia was already in use in newspaper ads for the Wanamaker's and Gimbel Brothers department stores. The self-proclaimed Furniture Center of Greater Philadelphia, J. B. Van Sciver Co., was actually located in Camden, New Jersey. And by the 1920s organizations and businesses ranging from sports clubs to real estate firms adopted names starting with Greater Philadelphia to associate their activities not only with the city but also its suburbs.

This visually stunning reference--assembled by the editorial team of the online Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia--adopts Greater Philadelphia to indicate a regional scope, but not one limited by a fixed geographical boundary. Instead, Greater Philadelphia refers to the interdependence between the city and its periphery across parts of three states: southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware. The book is arranged thematically, with chapters containing:

-- Depictions of the rivers and valleys that created natural territorial boundaries for the region as well as the histories of the treaties, map lines, and legislative acts that further defined the region;

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