Main entry:

Jackson, Kenneth T., compiler.

Title & Author:

Cities in American history. Edited, with introductions, by Kenneth T. Jackson and Stanley K. Schultz.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

New York, Knopf [1972]

Description:

xi, 508 pages illustrations 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 492-506).
pt. 1. The city in American history. Competitive communities on the western frontier / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Cities and Yankee ingenuity, 1870-1920 / Robert Higgs -- Varieties of American urban symbolism / Anselm L. Strauss -- pt. 2. Cities in the New World, 1607-1800. The absence of towns in seventeenth-century Virginia / John C. Rainbolt -- Economic development and social structure in colonial Boston / James A. Henretta -- The city of brotherly fear: the poor in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia / John K. Alexander -- pt. 3. Cities in an expanding nation, 1780-1865. Manufacturing in the American mercantile city, 1800-1840 / Allan Pred -- San Francisco: the patterns and chaos of growth / Roger Lotchin -- The emergence of central immigrant ghettoes in American cities, 1840-1920 / David Ward -- pt. 4. Immigration, migration, and mobility, 1865-1920. The Lower East Side: New York’s Jews, 1870-1914 / Moses Rischin -- Ethnic group assimilation: the Italian experience / Humbert S. Nelli -- Status, mobility, and the dimensions of change in a southern city: Atlanta 1870-1910 / Richard J. Hopkins -- Contested neighborhoods and racial violence: Chicago in 1919 / William M. Tuttle, Jr. -- pt. 5. The recurrent urban crisis. The nature of poverty and the prevention of disease / Charles Rosenberg -- To control the city: the New York police in historical perspective / James F. Richardson -- Urban vice and civic reform: Chicago in the early twentieth century / Mark H. Haller -- Breaking the chains of poverty: public education in Boston, 1800-1860 -- The changing perception of urban pathology: an essay on the development of mass transit in the United States / Glen E. Holt -- Housing reform and city planning in progressive America / Roy Lubove -- pt. 6. Bosses, machines, and urban reform. The specialization of leadership in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- Boss Cox’s Cincinnati: a study in urbanization and politics, 1880-1914 / Zane L. Miller -- Social and structural reform: a critical view of municipal government / Melvin G. Holli -- La Guardia comes to power, 1933 / Arthur Mann -- pt. 7. Dilemmas of metropolitan America. The city comes to main street / Lewis Atherton -- Metropolitan government versus political autonomy: politics on the crabgrass frontier / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Who lives where? Urban housing and discrimination / Jeanne R. Lowe -- Violence in the cities: a historical view / Richard C. Wade.

ISBN:

0394475585
9780394475585
0394311477 (text ed.)
9780394311470 (text ed.)

Subject:

Cities and towns United States.
Villes États-Unis.
Cities and towns
Cities and towns United States History.
Urbanization United States History.
United States
geografie
geography
geschiedenis
history
steden
towns
stedelijke gebieden
urban areas
vs
usa
Historical Geography
Economic, Social, and Cultural History of North America
Historische geografie
Economische, sociale en cultuurgeschiedenis van Noord-Amerika

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Schultz, Stanley K., compiler.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 208637
Call No.: HT123 .C5 1972
Status: Available