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Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683-1800
Urban Village Population Community and Family Structure in Germantown Pennsylvania 16831800 Author:Stephanie Grauman Wolf Most 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, the author describes a very different way of organizing society, indicat... more »ing that the New England model may prove atypical. In addition, her analysis suggests the origins of twentieth-century social patterns in eighteenth-century life.« less