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 they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.
- ISBN10 0801422426
- ISBN13 9780801422423
- Publish Date 24 April 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 6 November 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English