Urban Village Population, Community and Family Structure in Germantown Pensylvania 1683-1800Most studies of eighteenth-century community life in America have focused on New England, and in many respects the New England town has become a model for our understanding of communities throughout the United States during this period. In this study of a mid-Atlantic town, Stephanie Grauman Wolf describes a very different way of organizing society, indicating that the New England model may prove atypical. In addition, her analysis suggests the origins of twentieth-century social patterns in eighteenth-century life. |
Contents
Prof1le and Population of an Urban Village | 23 |
To the Highest Bidder The Economic and Social Value of Land in a Mobile Society | 58 |
The Urban Village as an Industrial Center | 96 |
With a German Accent Patterns of Acculturation in an EighteenthCentury Urban Village | 127 |
THE COMMUNITY | 155 |
Render unto Caesar The Secular Government | 160 |
And unto God The Church | 203 |
PRIVATE LIVES | 243 |
From Cradle to Grave Demographic Notes | 249 |
All in the Family | 287 |
Conclusion | 327 |
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