The Human Tradition in Urban America

Herausgeber: Biles, Roger

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Human Tradition in Urban America offers an intimate telling of America's evolution into an urban nation through the experiences of individuals. This book considers the growth of American cities by carefully looking at the lives of those people-some famous, some not so well known-who contributed to this important transition in the country's history. Roger Biles has assembled a superb collection of writings that provide a diverse collage of colorful and engaging characters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780842029933
• ISBN-10: 0842029931
• Artikelnr.: 21109540

Autorenporträt

Edited by Roger Biles

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Jermiah Dummer: From Puritan Son to
Worldly Gentleman Chapter 3 Andrew Jackson Downing: Promoter of City Parks
and Suburbs Chapter 4 Alexander R. Shepherd: The Haussmannization of
Washington, DC Chapter 5 Frank Julian Sprague: The Father of Electric Urban
Mass Transit in the United States Chapter 6 Charles A. Comiskey: Baseball
as American Pastime and Tragedy Chapter 7 Lillian Wald: Meeting the Needs
of Neighborhoods, 1893-1933 Chapter 8 Billy Sunday: Urban Prophet of Hope
Chapter 9 Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Frenzied Philanthropist Chapter
10 Catherine Bauer: The Struggle for Modern Housing in America, 1930-1960
Chapter 11 Robert Moses: Relentless Progressive Chapter 12 Coleman A.
Young: Race and the Reshaping of Postwar Urban Politics Chapter 13
Elizabeth Virrick: The "Concrete Monsters" and Housing Reform in Postwar
Miami Chapter 14 Index