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Title:
The making of urban America / edited by Raymond A. Mohl and Roger Biles.
Edition:
3rd ed.
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
viii, 456 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Cities and towns--United States--History.
Urbanization--United States--History.
Other Authors:
Mohl, Raymond A.
Biles, Roger, 1950-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The social evolution of preindustrial American cities, 1700-1820 / Gary B. Nash -- Slavery, emancipation and class formation in colonial and early national New York City / Leslie M. Harris -- The enemy within : some effects of foreign immigrants on antebellum southern cities / Randall M. Miller -- Underworlds and underdogs : big Tim Sullivan and metropolitan politics in New York, 1889-1913 / Daniel Czitrom -- The poor man's friend : saloonkeepers, workers and the code of reciprocity in U.S. barrooms, 1879-1920 / Madelon Powers -- Leisure and labor / Kathy Peiss -- Chicago's 1919 race riot : ethnicity, class and urban violence / Dominic A. Pacyga -- Pittsburgh's three rivers : from industrial infrastructure to environmental asset / Timothy M. Collins, Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr -- The New Deal in Dallas / Roger Biles -- Crabgrass-roots politics : race, rights and the reaction against liberalism in the urban North, 1840-1964 / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Popular culture in the age of white flight : film noir, Disneyland and the Cold War (sub)urban imaginary / Eric Avila -- Planned destruction : the interstates and central city housing / Raymond A. Mohl -- Harold and Dutch : a comparative look at the first black mayors of Chicago and New Orleans / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Latino immigrants and the politics of space in Atlanta / Mary E. Odem -- What is an American city? / Michael B. Katz -- New perspectives on American urban history / Raymond A. Mohl and Roger Biles.
ISBN:
0742552357
9780742552357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)742512287
LCCN:
2011036160
Locations:
LTAX046 -- Indian Hills Community College Library - Centerville (Centerville)

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