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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Becky Nicolaides , Andrew WiesePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.406kg ISBN: 9781138818583ISBN 10: 1138818585 Pages: 682 Publication Date: 24 May 2016 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart I: The Emergence of Suburbia 1750-1940 Chapter 1. The Transnational Origins of the Elite Suburb Chapter 2. Family and Gender in the Making of Suburbia Chapter 3. Technology and Decentralization Chapter 4. Economic and Class Diversity on the Early Suburban Fringe Chapter 5. The Politics of Early Suburbia Chapter 6. Imagining Suburbia: Visions and Plans from the Turn of the Century Chapter 7. The Other Suburbanites: class, racial, & ethnic diversity in early suburbia Chapter 8. The Tools of Exclusion: From Local Initiatives to Federal Policy Part II: Postwar Suburbia 1940-1970 Chapter 9. Postwar America: Suburban Apotheosis Chapter 10. Culture Wars: Polarized Constructions of Suburban Life Chapter 11.Postwar Suburbs and the Construction of Race Chapter 12. The City-Suburb Divide Part III: Recent Suburbia, 1970 to the Present Chapter 13. The Political Culture of Suburbia Chapter 14. Suburban Transformations Since 1970 Chapter 15. Economic and Class Transformations Chapter 16. Our Town: Enduring Exclusion in Recent Suburbia Chapter 17. The Future of SuburbiaReviewsThe Suburb Reader is the essential guide to the history of the world's first suburban nation. Nicolaides and Wiese have assembled an extraordinary collection of documents, illustrations, and maps, augmented with well-chosen essays by field-defining scholars. I can't wait to teach this book. -Thomas J. Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania This fabulous collection brings together richly textured documents and classic scholarly essays to illuminate how the United States became a suburban nation. Ideally suited for students, scholars, and general readers, the book includes multiple views of the suburbs-pro and con-and delves deeply into issues of race, class, gender, and politics. The Suburb Reader enriches our understanding not only of suburbia, but of America itself. -Elaine Tyler May, author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era The Suburb Reader is the essential guide to the history of the world’s first suburban nation. Nicolaides and Wiese have assembled an extraordinary collection of documents, illustrations, and maps, augmented with well-chosen essays by field-defining scholars. I can’t wait to teach this book. —Thomas J. Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania This fabulous collection brings together richly textured documents and classic scholarly essays to illuminate how the United States became a suburban nation. Ideally suited for students, scholars, and general readers, the book includes multiple views of the suburbs—pro and con—and delves deeply into issues of race, class, gender, and politics. The Suburb Reader enriches our understanding not only of suburbia, but of America itself. —Elaine Tyler May, author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era Author InformationBecky M. Nicolaides is an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and the author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965. Andrew Wiese is Professor of History at San Diego State University and the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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