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OverviewThe process by which a group of small colonial settlements in an untamed wilderness grew into a highly industrialized and urbanized nation is one of the central and most important themes of American history. The updated Making of Urban America provides a superb collection of essays for students and teachers on the many facets of urban development through history. This detailed and well-researched study traces 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 brought about modern-day urban life. In his extensive historiographical analysis of urban America, Professor Raymond Mohl introduces the reader to current literature and perspectives on urban history. 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 covering all of U.S. urban history and includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Raymond A. MohlPublisher: Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. Imprint: Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9780842026390ISBN 10: 0842026398 Pages: 388 Publication Date: 01 June 1997 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsPart I: The Preindustrial City Chapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700-1820 Chapter 2: Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel Riots and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City Chapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern Cities Chapter 4: The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social Order Part II: The Industrial City Chapter 5: The Centrality of the Horse in the Nineteenth-Century American City Chapter 6: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913 Chapter 7: The Poor Man's Friend : Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1870-1920 Chapter 8: Leisure and Labor Chapter 9: Chicago's 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban Violence Part III: The Twentieth-Century City Chapter 10: Music and Mass Culture in Mexican-American Los Angeles Chapter 11: The New Deal in Dallas Chapter 12: Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at Chicago's and New Orlean's First Black Mayors Chapter 13: Blacks and Hispanics in Multicultural America: A Miami Case Study Chapter 14: Bold New City or Built-up 'Burb? Redefining Contemporary Suburbia Part IV: The Historiography of Urban America Chapter 15: New Perspectives on American Urban HistoryReviewsA testament to the diversity of topics, theories, and researchers who find a home in the field of urban history today. The essays written by Mohl 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 A testament to the diversity of topics, theories, and researchers who find a home in the field of urban history today. The essays written by Mohl 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.--Hickey, Georgina Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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