Cities in American History
Author | : Kenneth T. Jackson |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780394311470 |
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Author | : Kenneth T. Jackson |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780394311470 |
Author | : Richard R. Lingeman |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
"The history of America is the history of its small towns. For better or worse, small town values, convictions, and attitudes have shaped the psyche of this nation...[This book] chronicles the rise and fall of small towns from the Atlantic to the Pacific and interweaves the story of their development with the main strands of American history..."--inside flap.
Author | : Carl Bridenbaugh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric H. Monkkonen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2024-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520377125 |
America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an unexpected and welcome sense of our urban origins. His historically anchored vision of our cities places topics of finance, housing, social mobility, transportation, crime, planning, and growth into a perspective which explains the present in terms of the past and ofers a point from which to plan for the future. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988 with a paperback in 1990.
Author | : John William Reps |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691238243 |
This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.
Author | : Lewis Mumford |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780156180351 |
The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
Author | : Blake McKelvey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000383601 |
Originally published in 1969, this book summarizes the findings of a comprehensive survey of the successive roles played by the explosive constellations of cities in American history. The book examines how and in what respects the planting and developing of cities influenced and was influenced by the colonial settlement, the achievement of independence, the occupation of the continent, the development of industrial enterprise, the challenge of foreign wars, the fluctuations of a dynamic economy and the frustrations of social and political strife in a democracy. Illuminating selections from original source documents add many graphic details and give a human dimension to this interpretation.
Author | : Oliver J. Dinius |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0820337552 |
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordlândia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, Río Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City). Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by supporting extractive industries on thinly settled frontiers and, as a result, brought more land, natural resources, and people under the control of corporations. U.S. multinational companies exported ideas about work discipline, race, and gender to Latin America as they established company towns there to extend their economic reach. Employers indeed shaped social relations in these company towns through education, welfare, and leisure programs, but these essays also show how working-class communities reshaped these programs to serve their needs. The editors’ introduction and a theoretical essay by labor geographer Andrew Herod provide the context for the case studies and illuminate how the company town serves as a window into both the comparative and transnational histories of labor under industrial capitalism.
Author | : Charles Nelson Glaab |
Publisher | : Homewood, Ill : Dorsey Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
"The selected documents in this unique volume examine the history of the rise of American cities. They serve as an introduction to the vast store of largely undeveloped historical sources which illuminate the role played by cities in our nation's past. The volume reflects the increasing interest in the urban question in our society and the seemingly collossal problems facing the huge metropolis or megalopolis."--Back cover.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : 9781438181783 |
Ideal for AP United States History students, this eBook allows readers to follow the growth, spread, and evolution of cities, towns, and settlements in America from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with discussion questions.