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The Middle-Class City
"Hepp examines areas of everyday living as opposed to the more traditional studies of politics, focusing on transportation, newspapers, department stores, and parks."—Choice
Mystery and Marvel
Using narratives from fair-goers, this book examines the technological enthusiasm of Victorian society at the 1876 Philadelphia World's Fair and the resulting transition from agricultural republic to industrial empire.
The Jazz Age President
"Presidents are ranked wrong. In The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding, Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up—and supplies the evidence to make that case strong. -Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of Coolidge He's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a "Worst Presidents" list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Historians have labeled him the "Worst President Ever," "Dead Last," "Unfit," and "Incompetent," to name but a few. Many contemporaries were equally cruel. H. L. Mencken called him a "nitwit." To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a "slob." Such is the current reputation of our 29th President,...
The Middle-Class City
The classic historical interpretation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America sees this period as a political search for order by the middle class, culminating in Progressive Era reforms. In The Middle-Class City, John Hepp examines transformations in everyday middle-class life in Philadelphia between 1876 and 1926 to discover the cultural roots of this search for order. By looking at complex relationships among members of that city's middle class and three largely bourgeois commercial institutions—newspapers, department stores, and railroads—Hepp finds that the men and women of the middle class consistently reordered their world along rational lines. According to...
The Business of Private Medical Practice
Unevenly distributed resources and rising costs have become enduring problems in the American health care system. Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. James A. Schafer Jr. shows that these problems are not inevitable features of modern medicine, but instead reflect the informal organization of health care in a free market system in which profit and demand, rather than social welfare and public health needs, direct the distribution and cost of crucial resources. The Business of Private Medical Practice is a case study of how market forces influenced the office locations and career pat...
The City Record
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The Shockey Chronicles
Descendants of Christopher Shockey (Johann Christophel Schacke) (1714- 1796), who was born in the Palatinate area of Germany and came to America in 1737. He landed in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 1737 and took the oath of allegiance on that day. He later owned land in Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania and Frederick Co., Maryland, which be- came Washington Co., Maryland in 1776. Christopher Shockey and his first wife Barbara (d. ca. 1772) had nine children: 1. Valentine (ca. 1735-1810), married Barbara Bixler (b. 1739); 2. Elizabeth (b. 1738); 3. John (b. ca. 1740); 4. Barbara (b. ca. 1745; 5. Magdalena (b. ca. 1747), married Philip Stombaugh (b. ca. 1745); 6. Jacob (ca. 1749-1810), married Anna Freed; 7. Isaac (ca. 1752- 1801); 8. Abraham (1755-1816), married Margaret (1763-1850; 9. Christian (1756-1829), married Mary Welsh (1757-1844). Christopher married ca. 1773 (2) Anna Maria. He had one child with her, Samuel Christian Shockey born 1774. Anna Maria had one daughter before her marriage to Christopher, Catherine, born 1768. She went by the name of Shockey. She married John Smith (1767-1807). Descendants live in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Virginia and elsewhere.
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management and urban archaeology. Three special sections explore the distinctive contributions of material culture studies, landscape archaeology and the archaeology of buildings and the household. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe, Australasia, Africa and around the world, the volume captures the breadth and diversity of contemporary historical archaeology, considers archaeology's relationship with history, cultural anthropology and other periods of archaeological study, and provides clear introductions to alternative conceptions of the field. This book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching the material remains of the recent past.
