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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.

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Author:   Raymond A. Mohl ,  Roger Biles ,  Eric Avila ,  Timothy M. Collins
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Edition:   Third Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 26.50cm
Weight:   1.139kg
ISBN:  

9780742552340

ISBN 10:   0742552349
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   23 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONSA testament to the diversity of topics, theories, and researchers who find a home in the field of urban history today. The essays . . . show how the research of historians and other urbanists over the last forty years can flow together to form a coherent story of America's development and urbanization.--Georgina Hickey

This new edition of The Making of Urban America highlights recent scholarship and shows the continued vitality of U.S. urban history. The methodological variety of the selections and the comprehensive bibliographic essay make the volume valuable to students and scholars alike. -- Abbott, Carl This thoroughly revised collection offers the broadest range of American urban historical research including both the essential classics and the best of the recent scholarship. It is an indispensable tool for urban history courses. The editors have written and selected wisely. -- Goldfield, David

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Raymond A. Mohl is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Roger Biles is professor of history at Illinois State University.

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