The Making of Urban America

Herausgeber: Mohl, Raymond A; Biles, Roger

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The revised and updated third edition of iMaking of Urban Americai includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. This book is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1139g
• ISBN-13: 9780742552340
• ISBN-10: 0742552349
• Artikelnr.: 33871447

Autorenporträt

Edited by Raymond A. Mohl and Roger Biles - Contributions by Eric Avila; Timothy M. Collins; Daniel Czitrom; Leslie M. Harris; Arnold R. Hirsch; Michael B. Katz; Randall M. Miller; Edward K. Muller; Gary B. Nash; Mary E. Odem; Dominic A. Pacyga; Kathy Pei

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: The Preindustrial City Chapter 1: The Social Evolution of
Preindustrial American Cities, 1700-1820 Chapter 2: Slavery, Emancipation,
and Class Formation in Colonial and Early National New York City Chapter 3:
The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern
Cities Part II: The Industrial City Chapter 4: Underworlds and Underdogs:
Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913 Chapter
5: The "Poor Man's Friend": Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of
Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1879-1920 Chapter 6: Leisure and Labor
Chapter 7: Chicago's 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban Violence
Chapter 8: Pittsburgh's Three Rivers: From Industrial Infrastructure to
Environmental Asset Part III: The Twentieth-Century Metropolis Chapter 9:
The New Deal in Dallas Chapter 10: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights,
and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1840-1964 Chapter
11: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and
the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary Chapter 12: Planned Destruction: The
Interstates and Central City Housing Chapter 13: Harold and Dutch: A
Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New Orleans
Chapter 14: Latino Immigrants and the Politics of Space in Atlanta Chapter
15: What Is an American City? Part IV: The Historiography of Urban America
Chapter 16: New Perspectives on American Urban History