The Making of Urban America
3rd Edition
Published on 23. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-7425-5235-7 (ISBN)
Description
The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America 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. The authors' extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban America 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.
Reviews / Votes
Highly recommended for any involved in urban studies programs at the college level. * Midwest Book Review * This new edition of The Making of Urban America highlights recent scholarship and shows the continued vitality of U.S. urban history. The methodological variety of the selections and the comprehensive bibliographic essay make the volume valuable to students and scholars alike. -- Carl Abbott, Portland State University This thoroughly revised collection offers the broadest range of American urban historical research including both the essential classics and the best of the recent scholarship. It is an indispensable tool for urban history courses. The editors have written and selected wisely. -- David Goldfield, University of North Carolina, CharlotteMore details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
869 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-5235-7 (9780742552357)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Raymond A. Mohl is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Roger Biles is professor of history at Illinois State University.
Content
Preface
Part I: The Preindustrial CityChapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700-1820
Chapter 2: Slavery, Emancipation, and Class Formation in Colonial and Early National New York CityChapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern CitiesPart II: The Industrial CityChapter 4: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913Chapter 5: The "Poor Man's Friend": Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1879-1920Chapter 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 MetropolisChapter 9: The New Deal in Dallas
Chapter 10: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1840-1964Chapter 11: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban ImaginaryChapter 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 OrleansChapter 14: Latino Immigrants and the Politics of Space in Atlanta
Chapter 15: What Is an American City?
Part IV: The Historiography of Urban AmericaChapter 16: New Perspectives on American Urban History
Part I: The Preindustrial CityChapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700-1820
Chapter 2: Slavery, Emancipation, and Class Formation in Colonial and Early National New York CityChapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern CitiesPart II: The Industrial CityChapter 4: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913Chapter 5: The "Poor Man's Friend": Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1879-1920Chapter 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 MetropolisChapter 9: The New Deal in Dallas
Chapter 10: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1840-1964Chapter 11: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban ImaginaryChapter 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 OrleansChapter 14: Latino Immigrants and the Politics of Space in Atlanta
Chapter 15: What Is an American City?
Part IV: The Historiography of Urban AmericaChapter 16: New Perspectives on American Urban History