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OverviewIn this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing visions of capitalists, reformers, and immigrants turned the urban landscape into a testing ground for American values. Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome, the ideal of home ownership emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities. Garb skillfully narrates these struggles, showing how the American infatuation with home ownership left the nation's cities sharply divided along class and racial lines. Based on research of real estate markets, housing and health reform, and ordinary homeowners—African American and white, affluent and working class—City of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in one of America's great urban centers. Garb shows that the pursuit of a single-family house set on a tidy yard, commonly seen as the very essence of the American dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret GarbPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9780226282091ISBN 10: 0226282090 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 December 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsGarb has produced an impressive and timely work of scholarship. . . . Few studies provide comparably insightful analyses of both housing and home ownership and the role those two phenomena have played in the cultural construction of the 'American dream.' Garb's book will prove useful to business historians, scholars of urban development and housing, and graduate students in a number of disciplines. -- Scott Henderson Business History Review Garb has produced an impressive and timely work of scholarship. . . . Few studies provide comparably insightful analyses of both housing and home ownership and the role those two phenomena have played in the cultural construction of the ''American dream.'' Garb''s book will prove useful to business historians, scholars of urban development and housing, and graduate students in a number of disciplines. --Scott Henderson Business History Review Author InformationMargaret Garb is associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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