The Suburb Reader

Herausgeber: Nicolaides, Becky; Wiese, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Employing over 200 primary sources, illustrations, and critical essays, The Suburb Reader documents the rise of North American suburbanization from the 1700s through the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 682
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1451g
• ISBN-13: 9781138818583
• ISBN-10: 1138818585
• Artikelnr.: 45090250

Autorenporträt

Becky M. Nicolaides is an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and the author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965. Andrew Wiese is Professor of History at San Diego State University and the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Emergence of Suburbia 1750-1940
Chapter 1. The Transnational Origins of the Elite Suburb
Chapter 2. Family and Gender in the Making of Suburbia
Chapter 3. Technology and Decentralization
Chapter 4. Economic and Class Diversity on the Early Suburban Fringe
Chapter 5. The Politics of Early Suburbia
Chapter 6. Imagining Suburbia: Visions and Plans from the Turn of the
Century
Chapter 7. The Other Suburbanites: class, racial, & ethnic diversity in
early suburbia
Chapter 8. The Tools of Exclusion: From Local Initiatives to Federal Policy
Part II: Postwar Suburbia 1940-1970
Chapter 9. Postwar America: Suburban Apotheosis
Chapter 10. Culture Wars: Polarized Constructions of Suburban Life
Chapter 11.Postwar Suburbs and the Construction of Race
Chapter 12. The City-Suburb Divide
Part III: Recent Suburbia, 1970 to the Present
Chapter 13. The Political Culture of Suburbia
Chapter 14. Suburban Transformations Since 1970
Chapter 15. Economic and Class Transformations
Chapter 16. Our Town: Enduring Exclusion in Recent Suburbia
Chapter 17. The Future of Suburbia