Cities and Markets
Studies in the Organization of Human Space
Published on 12. August 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-7618-0523-6 (ISBN)
Description
During the past two and a half centuries, social systems based upon the hierarchical organization of transactions among a relatively few metropolitan centers sprinkled throughout a predominantly rural population have given way to urbanization. Since the early nineteenth century, systems with 40, 60, or 80 percent of their populations residing in cities have proliferated. The singularity of this growth and redistribution of human numbers since the 1700s reflects a massive and sustained growth in the production and adaptation of inanimate energy and the productivity of economic resources. Cities and Markets deals with historical aspects of this modern industrial-urban experience. In this collection, interdisciplinary experts from a variety of fields examine the industrial-urbanization process of the last two and a half centuries from several points of view, highlighting the uniqueness of the period and the process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-0523-6 (9780761805236)
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Persons
Rondo Cameron is William Rand Kenan University Professor Emeritus at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Leo Schnore is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.
Content
chapter 1 Misunderstanding the Industrial Revolution, Rondo Cameron chapter 2 Inertia and Industrial Change, Paul L. Robertson chapter 3 Organization on the Periphery? Market Restrictions and Workplace Control in Trenton, New Jersey's Sanitary Pottery Industry, 1900-1929, Marc J. Stern chapter 4 Merchants and Planters: The Market Structure of the Colonial Chesapeake Reconsidered, Jacob M. Price chapter 5 The Twilight of the 'Nabobs': Civil War Losses and the End of Natchez, Mississippi as an Investment Center, Morton Rothstein chapter 6 Coordination, Cooperation, or Competition: The Great Northern Railway and Bus Transportation in the 1920s, Margaret Walsh chapter 7 Accounting and the Rise of Remote-Control Management: Holding Firm by Losing Touch, H. Thomas Johnson chapter 8 Barely a Part of the Equation: Baltimore's Mid-nineteenth Century Black Population in Perspective, Joseph L. Garonzik chapter 9 The Winnebago Urban System: Indian Policy and Townsite Promotion on the Upper Mississippi, Kathleen N. Conzen chapter 10 Environmental Re-reading: Three Urban Novels, Sam Bass Warner, Jr. chapter 11 Comic and Social Types: From Egan to Mayhew, Peter G. Buckley chapter 12 Cohorts and Communities: A Personal Note on Some, Leo Schnore