UID:
almafu_9960101951902883
Format:
1 online resource (361 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8229-7127-5
Series Statement:
Pitt paperback Pittsburgh: the story of a city, 1750-1865
Content:
Originally published in 1937, [t]hisstandard 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. With wonderful line illustrations by Ward Howe.
Note:
"This book is one of a series relating to Western Pennsylvania history written under the direction of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey sponsored jointly by the Buhl Foundation, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh."
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue Lewis Evans, His Map -- I. Virginia Takes a Hand in the West -- II. How Are the Mighty Fallen! -- III. Robbers' Roost -- IV. The Head of Iron -- V. Britannia Rules the Ohio -- VI. Pioneer Village in War and Peace -- VII. "Intestin Broyls -- VIII. Revolt in the West -- IX. Between Revolts -- X. Tom the Tinker Comes to Town -- XI. The Gateway to the West -- XII. Genesis of an Industrial Empire -- XIII. Life under the Poplars -- XIV. Clapboard Democracy -- XV. From Turnpike to Railroad -- XVI. Civic Pittsburgh, 1816-1860 -- XVII. "The Birmingham of America -- XVIII. The Emergence of a Metropolis -- XIX. Moral and Cultural Advancement -- XX. High and Low Life -- XXI. National Politics on a Local Scale -- XXII. Prelude to Strife -- XXIII. The Sinews of War -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8229-5216-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-98108-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
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Electronic books.
