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America s Urban History
Author | : Lisa Krissoff Boehm,Steven H. Corey |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2023-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000904970 |
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In this second edition, America’s Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has been fully updated with new scholarship on early urbanization, mass incarceration and cities, the Great Society, the diversification of the suburbs, and environmental justice. The United States is one of the most heavily urbanized places in the world, and its urban history is essential to understanding the fundamental narrative of American history. This book is an accessible overview of the history of American cities, including Indigenous settlements, colonial America, the American West, the postwar metropolis, and the present-day landscape of suburban sprawl and an urbanized population. It examines the ways in which urbanization is connected to divisions of society along the lines of race, class, and gender, but it also studies how cities have been sources of opportunity, hope, and success for individuals and the nation. Images, maps, tables, and a guide to further reading provide engaging accompaniment to illustrate key concepts and themes. Spanning centuries of America’s urban past, this book’s depth and insight make it an ideal text for students and scholars in urban studies and American history.
Encyclopedia of American Urban History
Author | : David Goldfield |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 1057 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761928843 |
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Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, this encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.
American Urban History
Author | : Alexander B. Callow |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015006802857 |
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The New African American Urban History
Author | : Kenneth W. Goings,Raymond A. Mohl |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1996-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105018322003 |
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While earlier studies often portrayed African Americans as passive or powerless, as victims of white racism or slum pathologies, this book emphasizes new scholarship which conveys a sense of active involvement, of people empowered, engaged in struggle, living their lives in dignity and shaping their own futures. These ten essays written by prominent scholars, are synergetic in their common thematic approaches and interpretive analyses, with emphasis on the importance of agency among African Americans - an interpretive thrust that has shaped new writing in the field in the past decade.
American Urban Form
Author | : Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Andrew Whittemore |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2012-02-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262300926 |
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An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of “the City”—a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis. In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.
America s Urban History
Author | : Lisa Krissoff Boehm,Steven Hunt Corey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317813316 |
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The history of the American city is, in many ways, the history of the United States. Although rural traditions have also left their impact on the country, cities and urban living have been vital components of America for centuries, and an understanding of the urban experience is essential to comprehending America’s past. America’s Urban History is an engaging and accessible overview of the life of American cities, from Native American settlements before the arrival of Europeans to the present-day landscape of suburban sprawl, urban renewal, and a heavily urbanized population. The book provides readers with a rich chronological and thematic narrative, covering themes including: The role of cities in the European settlement of North America Cities and westward expansion Social reform in the industrialized cities The impact of the New Deal The growth of the suburbs The relationships between urban forms and social issues of race, class, and gender Covering the evolving story of the American city with depth and insight, America's Urban History will be the first stop for all those seeking to explore the American urban experience.
African American Urban History since World War II
Author | : Kenneth L. Kusmer,Joe W. Trotter |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226465128 |
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Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject. The first of this volume’s five groundbreaking sections focuses on black migration and Latino immigration, examining tensions and alliances that emerged between African Americans and other groups. Exploring the challenges of residential segregation and deindustrialization, later sections tackle such topics as the real estate industry’s discriminatory practices, the movement of middle-class blacks to the suburbs, and the influence of black urban activists on national employment and social welfare policies. Another group of contributors examines these themes through the lens of gender, chronicling deindustrialization’s disproportionate impact on women and women’s leading roles in movements for social change. Concluding with a set of essays on black culture and consumption, this volume fully realizes its goal of linking local transformations with the national and global processes that affect urban class and race relations.
The Making of Urban America
Author | : Raymond A. Mohl |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0842026398 |
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This second edition is designed to introduce students of urban history to recent interpretive literature in this field. Its goal is to provide a coherent framework for understanding the pattern of American urbanization, while at the same time offering specific examples of the work of historians in the field.