Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 464
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Trim: 7½ x 10½
978-0-7425-5234-0 • Hardback • November 2011 • $160.00 • (£123.00)
978-0-7425-5235-7 • Paperback • November 2011 • $83.00 • (£64.00)
978-1-4930-8362-6 • eBook • October 2023 • $78.50 • (£60.00)
Raymond A. Mohl is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Roger Biles is professor of history at Illinois State University.
Preface
Part I: The Preindustrial CityChapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700–1820
Chapter 2: Slavery, Emancipation, and Class Formation in Colonial and Early National New York CityChapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern CitiesPart II: The Industrial CityChapter 4: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889–1913Chapter 5: The “Poor Man’s Friend”: Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1879–1920Chapter 6: Leisure and Labor
Chapter 7: Chicago’s 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban Violence
Chapter 8: Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers: From Industrial Infrastructure to Environmental Asset
Part III: The Twentieth-Century MetropolisChapter 9: The New Deal in Dallas
Chapter 10: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1840–1964Chapter 11: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban ImaginaryChapter 12: Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City Housing
Chapter 13: Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New OrleansChapter 14: Latino Immigrants and the Politics of Space in Atlanta
Chapter 15: What Is an American City?
Part IV: The Historiography of Urban AmericaChapter 16: New Perspectives on American Urban History
Highly recommended for any involved in urban studies programs at the college level.
(Previous Edition Praise)— Midwest Book Review
This new edition of The Making of Urban America highlights recent scholarship and shows the continued vitality of U.S. urban history. The methodological variety of the selections and the comprehensive bibliographic essay make the volume valuable to students and scholars alike.— Carl Abbott, Portland State University
This thoroughly revised collection offers the broadest range of American urban historical research including both the essential classics and the best of the recent scholarship. It is an indispensable tool for urban history courses. The editors have written and selected wisely.
— David Goldfield, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Covers the entire span of American urban history, from the colonial era to the 21st century
Three-part chronological organization, covering the preindustrial city, the industrial city, and the modern metropolis
Extensive analytical introductions to each chronological section
Population tables drawn from various U.S. census data, including 2010 census
Fifteen articles, seven new to this edition
Extensive, up-to-date historiographical essay on eighteen separate sub-fields