The Greater Philadelphia Region (Hardback Book)

Name: The Greater Philadelphia Region (Hardback Book)
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press

University of Pennsylvania Press

Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.\nAs early as the 1890s, the term \""Greater Philadelphia\"" was already in use in newspaper ads for the Wanamaker's and Gimbel Brothers department stores. The self-proclaimed \""Furniture Center of Greater Philadelphia,\"" J. B. Van Sciver Co., was actually located in Camden, New Jersey. And by the 1920s organizations and businesses ranging from sports clubs to real estate firms adopted names starting with \""Greater Philadelphia\"" to associate their activities not only with the city\n\nThe Greater Philadelphia Region\nA New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Ma;