Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1780-1865

by Leland Baldwin

Overview

The standard history of Pittsburgh tells the city’s story from its violent days as an eighteenth-century outpost of empire to the onset of its great age of industrial expansion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822952169
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	06/30/1970
Series:	Regional
Edition description:	1
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Leland D. Baldwin was assistant director of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey and professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.

Editorial Reviews

A good piece of Americana. It is the kind of book a historian will like, and the ordinary reader will find it solid hard-hitting history.

PA Sewickley Herald

An absorbing story. . . . It provides in brief compass a 'vivid movie' of the city's past with due regard for the relative importance of people, events, and the growths of neighborhoods.

Hervey Allen

An absorbing story. . . . It provides in brief compass a ‘vivid movie’ of the city’s past with due regard for the relative importance of people, events, and the growths of neighborhoods; it throws light on the folkways, and customs, the prejudices, virtues, shortcomings and triumphs of the past, and goes a long way toward explaining the city and the citizens of the present day.  And that story is important—for the doings of Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers have profoundly affected the whole modern world”—Hervey Allen

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