Call Number:

MC.975.07.012

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.69 linear ft. (4 volumes)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

"The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age: 1865-1920" (HC.MC.975.07.012), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1976

Creator:

Benjamin, Phillip S.

Form:

manuscripts (documents)

Abstract:

Phillip S. Benjamin's dissertation, entitled "The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age: 1865-1920," and materials related to the manuscript, including an undated draft and Benjamin's notes for his dissertation, which are kept on notecards, describe and analyze Quaker responses to the changing social conditions in the United States created by industrialization, urbanization, and the increasing homogenization and secularization of United States culture.

Phillip S. Benjamin received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1967. In addition to his dissertation, "The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age: 1865-1920," he also published an article entitled "Gentleman Reformers in the Quaker City, 1870-1912" (1970) in Political Science Quarterly, an academic journal.

This collection is comprised of Phillip S. Benjamin's dissertation for Columbia University, entitled "The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age: 1865-1920," and materials related to the manuscript, including an undated draft and Benjamin's notes for his dissertation, which are kept on notecards. Benjamin's dissertation describes and analyzes Quaker responses to the changing social conditions in the United States created by industrialization, urbanization, and the increasing homogenization and secularization of United States culture.