
The Making of Urban America
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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
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