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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hoffecker, Carol E. Wilmington, Delaware: portrait of an industrial city, 1830-1910. [Charlottesville] Published for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation by the University Press of Virginia [1974] (OCoLC)581911165 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carol E Hoffecker |
ISBN: | 0813905192 9780813905198 |
OCLC Number: | 885109 |
Description: | xvi, 187 pages illustrations 23 cm |
Contents: | I. The process of industrialization -- The town and its economy -- Industrialization -- The factory system -- II. The dynamics of physical growth: politics and utilities -- Urbanization -- The need for services -- Halfway to reform -- III. The formation of an urban society, 1840-1870 -- New roles for the churches -- Expanding educational opportunities -- Social life and self-improvement -- IV. Industrial Wilmington comes of age -- The composition of the population -- The nature of the city's industries -- The philanthropic ladies -- The flowering of organized sports and amusements -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Responsibility: | [by] Carol E. Hoffecker. |
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