The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926 From: Business History Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Miltenberger, Scott | Copyright Harvard Business School Winter 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926. By John Henry Hepp IV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix + 278 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $36.50. ISBN: 0-8122-3723-4.

For nearly four decades, Robert Wiebe's The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967) has defined the historiography of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century America. Simply put, Wiebe argued that the fear of social chaos-promp...

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