The Lower Sort: Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800

by Billy Gordon Smith

Book Overview

This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481635
• ISBN13: 9780801481635
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Misleading headline as used: "good". The book was predominantly unreadable.

This is an incredible book topic, however, it was difficult to read because of heavy highlighting in dark purple and dark blue. I kept it as needed for research, until I could acquire a copy from the Free Library of Philadelphia that was readable.