| The Making of Urban America Contributor(s): Mohl, Raymond A. (Editor), Biles, Roger (Editor), Avila, Eric (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0742552349 ISBN-13: 9780742552340 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| LCCN: 2011036160 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.9" W x 10" (2.51 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |