Title & Author:

The new suburban history / edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Description:

x, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Notes:
Based on a conference held at Princeton University in Feb. 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-274) and index.
Introduction: The new suburban history / Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue -- Marketing the free market : state intervention and the politics of prosperity in metropolitan America / David M.P. Freund -- Less than plessy : the inner city, suburbs, and state-sanctioned residential segregation in the age of Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Uncovering the city in the suburb : Cold War politics, scientific elites, and high-tech spaces / Margaret Pugh O'Mara -- How hell moved from the city to the suburbs : urban scholars and changing perceptions of authentic community / Becky Nicolaides -- "The house I live in" : race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese -- "Socioeconomic integration" in the suburbs : from reactionary populism to class fairness in metropolitan Charlotte / Matthew D. Lassiter -- Prelude to the tax revolt : the politics of the "tax dollar" in postwar California / Robert O. Self -- Suburban growth and its discontents : the logic and limits of reform on the postwar Northeast corridor / Peter Siskind -- Reshaping the American dream : immigrants, ethnic minorities, and the politics of the new suburbs / Michael Jones-Correa -- The legal technology of exclusion in metropolitan America / Gerald Frug.

Summary:

America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as simply a refuge for affluent whites, this book rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. The seemingly calm streets of suburbia were, in fact, battlegrounds over race, class and politics.

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ISBN:

0226456625 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226456621 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226456633 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226456638 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Schweiz Eidgenössischer Vorort
Suburbs United States History Congresses.
Metropolitan areas United States History Congresses.
Banlieues États-Unis Histoire Congrès.
Agglomérations urbaines États-Unis Histoire Congrès.
Metropolitan areas.
Suburbs.
Großstadt
Metropolregion
Metropole
Vorstadt
Städer historia Förenta staterna 1900-talet 2000-talet.
Förorter historia Förenta staterna 1900-talet 2000-talet.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

Congress
Kongress Princeton (NJ) 2004.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-
Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962-
Historical studies of urban America.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247215
Call No.: BIB 176773
Status: Available