A Flâneur in Philly: Class, Gender, Race, and All That Jazz.

Between 1793 and 1797 a British musician who fancied himself a flaneur--a stroller, idler, time waster--moved to the United States to earn his living and travel around the country. William Priest's letters to England contain insightful comments about urban life in the new nation, observations that t...

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Published in:	Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 512 - 544
Main Authors:	SMITH, BILLY G., MASKIELL, MICHELLE
Format:	Essay
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Summer2015
Subjects:	Priest, William Geographic information systems History & technology History of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Historical source material Labor unions Shoemakers Neighborhoods American women History Eighteenth century United States
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost