Author: Racquet Club (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Category : Athletic clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Officers, Members, Charter and By-laws of the Racquet Club of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Racquet Club (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Category : Athletic clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Publisher:
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Category : Athletic clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Officers, Members, Charter and By-laws of the Racquet Club of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Racquet Club (Philadelphia, Pa.).
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Officers, Members, Charter and By-laws of the Racquet Club of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Racquet Club (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Category : Athletic clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Athletic clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The City of First
Author: George Morgan
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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List of Members, Officers, Charter, Bylaws and Publications
Author: Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Who's who in Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Philadelphia Gentlemen
Author: E. Digby Baltzell
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
Although primarily a Proper Philadelphia story that starts with the city's Golden Age at the close of the eighteenth century, this classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock and Protestant (largely Episcopalian) affiliations is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy, nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia supported a series of class-creating institutions outside the family. These institutions included: the New England boarding schools; Harvard, Yale, and Princeton; and urban men's clubs and suburban country clubs. They produced, in the course of the twentieth century, a national, intercity, upper-class way of life. Philadelphia Gentlemen shows how this class reached its peak of power and influence in America on the eve of the Second World War. “Writing both as a Philadelphian and a sociologist, Mr, Baltzell has dissected the upper-class structure of his native city with results as fascinating as they are illuminating.”—John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate “In constructing a picture of the proper Philadelphian. Baltzell has made use of masses of printed material and some manuscript sources, there is little on Philadelphia and Philadelphia families which he has neglected....a gold mine of information.”—American Historical Review “Philadelphia Gentlemen says important things about class and power in America, and says it in ways that will interest and fascinate; both sociologists and laymen.”—Seymour Martin Lipset “This is a very, very important book.”—The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
Although primarily a Proper Philadelphia story that starts with the city's Golden Age at the close of the eighteenth century, this classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock and Protestant (largely Episcopalian) affiliations is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy, nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia supported a series of class-creating institutions outside the family. These institutions included: the New England boarding schools; Harvard, Yale, and Princeton; and urban men's clubs and suburban country clubs. They produced, in the course of the twentieth century, a national, intercity, upper-class way of life. Philadelphia Gentlemen shows how this class reached its peak of power and influence in America on the eve of the Second World War. “Writing both as a Philadelphian and a sociologist, Mr, Baltzell has dissected the upper-class structure of his native city with results as fascinating as they are illuminating.”—John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate “In constructing a picture of the proper Philadelphian. Baltzell has made use of masses of printed material and some manuscript sources, there is little on Philadelphia and Philadelphia families which he has neglected....a gold mine of information.”—American Historical Review “Philadelphia Gentlemen says important things about class and power in America, and says it in ways that will interest and fascinate; both sociologists and laymen.”—Seymour Martin Lipset “This is a very, very important book.”—The New York Times Book Review
Philadelphia Gentlemen
Author: Roger L. Geiger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351499890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations as well as an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, supported various exclusive institutions that in the course of the twentieth century produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life became an end of itself, instead of an effort to consolidate power and control, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class system.Philadelphia Gentlemen emphasizes that class is largely a matter of family, whereas an elite is largely a matter of individual achievement. The emphasis in Philadelphia on old classes, in contrast to the emphasis in New York and Boston on individual achievement and elite striving, helps to explain the dramatically different outcomes of ruling class domination in major centers of the Eastern Establishment. In emphasizing class membership or family prestige, the dynamics of industrial and urban life passed by rather than through Philadelphia. As a result in the race for urban preeminence, Philadelphia lost precious time and eventually lost the struggle for ruling preeminence as such.When the book initially appeared, it was hailed by The New York Times as "a very, very important book." Writing in the pages of the American Sociological Review, Seymour Martin Lipset noted that "Philadelphia Gentlemen says important things about class and power in America, and says them in ways that will interest and fascinate both sociologists and laymen." And in the American Historical Review, Baltzell's book was identified simply as "a gold mine of information." In short, for sociologists, historians, and those concerned with issues of culture and
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351499890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations as well as an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, supported various exclusive institutions that in the course of the twentieth century produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life became an end of itself, instead of an effort to consolidate power and control, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class system.Philadelphia Gentlemen emphasizes that class is largely a matter of family, whereas an elite is largely a matter of individual achievement. The emphasis in Philadelphia on old classes, in contrast to the emphasis in New York and Boston on individual achievement and elite striving, helps to explain the dramatically different outcomes of ruling class domination in major centers of the Eastern Establishment. In emphasizing class membership or family prestige, the dynamics of industrial and urban life passed by rather than through Philadelphia. As a result in the race for urban preeminence, Philadelphia lost precious time and eventually lost the struggle for ruling preeminence as such.When the book initially appeared, it was hailed by The New York Times as "a very, very important book." Writing in the pages of the American Sociological Review, Seymour Martin Lipset noted that "Philadelphia Gentlemen says important things about class and power in America, and says them in ways that will interest and fascinate both sociologists and laymen." And in the American Historical Review, Baltzell's book was identified simply as "a gold mine of information." In short, for sociologists, historians, and those concerned with issues of culture and
War Rations for Pennsylvanians
Author: George Nox McCain
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.