Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1780-1865University of Pittsburgh Pre, 15.04.1937 - 360 Seiten The standard history of Pittsburgh tells the city's story from its violent days as an eighteenth-century outpost of empire to the onset of its great age of industrial expansion. |
Inhalt
XIII Life under the Poplars | 154 |
XIV Clapboard Democracy | 172 |
XV From Turnpike to Railroad | 184 |
XVI Civic Pittsburgh 18161860 | 201 |
XVII The Birmingham of America | 218 |
XVIII The Emergence of a Metropolis | 231 |
XIX Moral and Cultural Advancement | 248 |
XX High and Low Life | 268 |
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XI The Gateway to the West | 129 |
XII Genesis of an Industrial Empire | 145 |
XXI National Politics on a Local Scale | 285 |
XXII Prelude to Strife | 300 |
XXIII The Sinews of War | 311 |
Index | 329 |
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