Synopses & Reviews
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 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.p
Synopsis
The newly updated and extensively revised 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 U.S. 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. 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 covers all of U.S. urban history and includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
The social evolution of preindustrial American cities, 1700-1820 / Gary B. Nash -- Strumpets and misogynists : brothel 'riots' and the transformation of prostitution in antebellum New York City / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- The enemy within : some effects of foreign immigrants on antebellum southern cities / Randall M. Miller -- The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Mary Ryan -- The centrality of the horse in the nineteenth-century American city / Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr -- Underworlds and underdogs : big Tim Sullivan and metropolitan politics in New York, 1889-1913 / Daniel Czitrom -- The "poor man's friend" : saloonkeepers, workers, and the code of reciprocity in U.S. barrooms, 1870-1920 / Madelon Powers -- Leisure and labor / Kathy Peiss -- Chicago's 1919 race riot : ethnicity, class, and urban violence / Dominic A. Pacyga -- Music and mass culture in Mexican-American Los Angeles / George J. Sanchez -- The new deal in Dallas / Roger Biles -- Harold and Dutch : a comparative look at the first Black mayors of Chicago and New Orleans / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Blacks and Hispanics in multicultural America : a Miami case study / Raymond A. Mohl --Bold New City or build-up 'burb? Redefining contemporary suburbia / William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock -- New perspectives on American urban history / Raymond A. Mohl.