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Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Three-Volume Set

Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Three-Volume Set

Adams, Carolyn T.
Gillette, Howard
Heath, Andrew

Hardcover

Dictionaries & EncyclopediasGeneral SociologyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $125.00

ISBN10: 1512829358
ISBN13: 9781512829358
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 1
Weight: 9.25
Height: 2.80 Width: 9.00 Depth: 11.30
Language: English

Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century brings to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.

Volume 1 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 Greater Philadelphia Region represents a collection of stories fundamental to the Philadelphia area's history and evolution based on the belief that regions work best when residents, divided in space but linked in multiple ways through social and economic connections, possess shared knowledge about the people and the places that surround them.

Volume 2 begins with Philadelphia's role during the American Revolution, as the nation's first capital until 1800, and as home to one of the North's largest free African American communities in the antebellum period. From the Civil War to woman suffrage, from the Lenape people to the Gray Panthers, from Black Power to Occupy Philadelphia, the book chronicles the ongoing dynamics of citizenship and nationhood as they unfolded in the Philadelphia region from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Greater Philadelphia and the Nation demonstrates how Philadelphia, and its periphery across southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware, create, challenge, and sustain the nation.

Volume 3 reveals the influence of empires and nations on Greater Philadelphia while also emphasizing the dynamic role the region and its people have played in shaping the modern world. Exploring the immigrants who peopled the Delaware Valley, the faiths they practiced, the environment they shaped, the wars they waged, and the global connections they forged, Greater Philadelphia and the World reveals a city and its surroundings that has been continually molded by its links to the Atlantic, the Americas, and the Pacific.

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