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Overview"Since 1945, American popular culture has portrayed suburbia as a place with a culture, politics, and economy distinct from cities, towns, and rural areas. In Between City and Country, Ronald Dale Karr examines the evolution of Brookline, Boston’s most renowned nineteenth-century suburb, arguing that a distinctively suburban way of life appeared here long before World War II. Already a fashionable retreat for wealthy Bostonians, Brookline began to suburbanize in the 1840s with the arrival of hundreds of commuter families – and significant numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants drawn by opportunities to work as laborers and servants. In Brookline the poor were segregated but not excluded altogether, as they would be from twentieth-century elite suburbs. A half century later, a distinct suburban way of life developed that combined rural activities with urban pastimes, and a political consensus emerged that sought efficient government and large expenditures on education and public works. Brookline had created the template for the concept of suburbia, not just in wealthy communities but in the less affluent communities of postwar America.""""— """"Karr has engagingly detailed the rich evolution of Brookline, and clearly woven together the many strands of its development, in a manner that significantly expands our knowledge not only of Brookline but of the history of suburban development in the United States.""""—John Archer, author of Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690–2000" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ronald Dale KarrPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press Weight: 0.435kg ISBN: 9781625343048ISBN 10: 1625343043 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 28 February 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this intensive study of one Massachusetts town (Brookline), Ronald D. Karr has produced a worthy addition to the literature of suburbia. --Historical Journal of Massachusetts Author InformationRonald Dale Karr is retired reference librarian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |