Author: Bertram S. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Making it in 19th-century Urban America
Author: Bertram S. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Making of Urban America
Author: John William RepsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691238243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
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.
The Making of Urban America
Author: Raymond A. MohlPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493083627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
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.
Making it in 19th-century Urban America
Author: Bertram S. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
The Gilded Age
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Making of Urban America
Author: Raymond A. MohlPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The 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 provi
City People
Author: Gunther BarthPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195031942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.
Economic Growth and Occupational Mobility in 19th Century Urban America
Author: Anthony E. BroadmanRudeness and Civility
Author: John F. KassonPublisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 146680663X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic society.
The Cycling City
Author: Evan FrissPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022675880X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
As Evan Friss shows in his mordant history of urban bicycling in the late nineteenth century, the bicycle has long told us much about cities and their residents. In a time when American cities were chaotic, polluted, and socially and culturally impenetrable, the bicycle inspired a vision of an improved city in which pollution was negligible, transport was noiseless and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country blurred. Friss focuses not on the technology of the bicycle but on the urbanisms that bicycling engendered. Bicycles altered the look and feel of cities and their streets, enhanced mobility, fueled leisure and recreation, promoted good health, and shrank urban spaces as part of a larger transformation that altered the city and the lives of its inhabitants, even as the bicycle's own popularity fell, not to rise again for a century. --Publisher's description.