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Subject(s)

• Cities and towns—United States—History [Browse]
• Urbanization—United States [Browse]
• United States—Social conditions [Browse]

Related name

• Chudacoff, Howard P. [Browse]
• Baldwin, Peter C., 1962- [Browse]

Series

Major problems in American history series [More in this series]

Notes

Rev. ed. of: Major problems in American urban history / edited by Howard P. Chudacoff. c1994.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Interpreting urband and suburban history. Essays. From the history of the city to the history of the urbanized society / Samuel P. Hays ; The triumph of burbopolis / Michael Pollan ; The new paradigms of urban history / Timothy J. Gilfoyle
• Chapter 2: Colonial seaports and trading posts, 1600-1770. Documents. Edward Johnson tells how God and trade made New England prosper, 1654 ; The Rev. Hugh Jones describes economic life and settlement in early Maryland, 1699 ; Philadelphia, 1702 ; William Moraley, an indentured servant, enjoys a moment of freedom in Philadelphia, 1729 ; A record of Charleston's exports, 1735-1736 ; Peter Kalm considers trade in 1740s New York ; Elizabeth Sandwith, a wealthy young Phaldelphian, describes her work, 1758-1760 ; Auguste Chouteau remembers the founding of St. Louis, 1763 ; A Philadelphian worries about competition from Baltimore, 1767. Essays. The web of seaport life, 1600-1700 / Gary B. Nash ; Independent women in colonial America / Karin Wulf ; Constructing the house of Chouteau / Jay Gitlin.
• Chapter 3: The "lower sort" in early American cities, 1740-1825. Documents. Dr. Alexander Hamilton interacts with his peers and social inferiors in Philadelphia, 1744 ; Josiah Quincy, Jr., laments Revolutionary mob action in Boston, 1765 ; A white observer deplores the celebration of Pinkster in Albany, 1803 ; William Otter brags about his exploits as a young hoodlum in New York, 1806-1807 ; A Charleston African American testifies about his involvement in the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy, 1822. Essays. Managing social conflic in Philadelphia's taverns / Peter Thompson ; Interracial festivity and power in Albany, New York / Bradford Verter.
• Chapter 4: Economic growth and social change, 1825-1860. Documents. David Johnson recalls his apprenticeship in Lynn, Massachusetts, ca. 1830 ; Harriet Martineau visits Chicago in its infancy, 1836 ; A Rochester workingman debates an employer, 1840 ; Mary Paul writes home about her Lowell textile-mill experience, 1845-1846 ; Benjamin Moore Norman predicts a glorious future for New Orleans, 1845 ; Bayard Taylor observes San Francisco during the Gold Rush, 1849 ; A advertisement promotes the "City of Nininger," late 1850s. Essays. Booster dreams / William Cronon ; Industrialization in Newark / Susan E. Hirsch.
• Chapter 5: Dealing with sickness and sanitation, 1830-1900. Documents. John Pintard writes to his daughter Eliza about the cholera epidemic, of 1832 ; Bill of mortality for the City of Boston, 1835 ; A New Orleans newspaper warns that filthy streets will cause disease, 1853 ; Dr. Ezra R. Pulling reports unhealthy conditions among New York's poor, ca. 1860 ; B.E. Lloyd sensationalizes health conditions in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1876 ; George E. Waring, Jr., complains that Memphis is still unsanitary, 1882 ; A city street before and after sanitation reform. Essays. The necropolis of the South / Ari Kelman ; White fears and the racialization of disease in San Francisco / Nayan Shah.
• Chapter 6: Class relations in the industrial metropolis, 1850-1900. Documents. James W. Gerard pleads for better police protection in New York, 1853 ; Charles Loring Brace boasts of his "remedy for juvenile pauperism," 1872 ; Troops fire on rioters in Baltimore, 1877 ; Richard T. Ely weighs the benefits and disadvantages of life in a company town, 1885 ; Chicago anarchists call for workers to protest police brutality, 1886 ; Jacob Riis warns of the social dangers posed by bad housing, 1890 ; Jane Addams explains the need for settlement houses, 1892 ; Twenty-five largest American cities, 1900 (map and population table). Essays. Women, children, and the uses of the streets / Christine Stansell ; The suburban home as the answer to middle-class hopes / Kenneth T. Jackson.
• Chapter 7: Great migration, 1870-1930. Documents. Immigrants tell about their experiences in America, ca. 1900 ; Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama depicts his first jobin San Francisco, ca. 1904 ; Immigrants in American cities, 1910 ; Growth of black urban communities, 1910-1930 ; Southern African Americans discuss the advantages of moving to Northern cities, 1917 ; Southern African Americans tell why they came to Chicago, 1922. Essays. Immigrant newcomers to turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh / John Bodnar, Roger Simon, and Michael P. Weber ; Southern blacks' migration to Chicago in the early twentieth century / James R. Grossman.
• Chapter 8. Changing technology and urban space, 1870-1930. Documents. William Gray Brooks sees Boston disrupted by a horse disease, 1872 ; Julian Ralph marvels at the electricity and skyscrapers in high-speed Chicago, 1892 ; New York pedestrians confront reckless drivers, 1902 ; Horses, wagons, and automobiles, St. Louis, 1902-1920 ; The diary of a Hartford motorist, 1911 ; John Ihlder, a city planner, considers the effects of the automobile, 1924. Essays. Uniting commerce and culture in the early skyscraper / Daniel Bluestone ; Automobile versus pedestrian in Hartford / Peter C. Baldwin.
• Chapter 9: Bosses, reformers, and urban professionals, 1870-1930. Documents. Richard Croker defends Tammany Hall, 1892 ; James Bryce deplores boss politics, 1895 ; Jane addams explains "why the ward boss rules," 1898 ; Martha A.B. Conine tells how Denver women entered local politics, 1898 ; Big Tim Sullivan hosts his annual picnic, 1903. Essays. The rise of Big Tim Sullivan / Daniel Czitrom ; A reappraisal of bosses and reformers in city government / Jon C. Teaford.
• Chapter 10: Neighborhood and community, 1880-1945. Documents. Don Tong, a Chinese American, confronts racial zoning in Baltimore, 1911 ; A gay professor describes gay community life in Denver and other cities, ca. 1910 ; Graham Romeyn Taylor analyzes community building in industrial suburbs, 1915 ; J.C. Nichols, a Kansas City developer, touts the community features of suburbs, 1924 ; Harvey Warren Zorbaugh denies the existence of normal community life in a furnished room district of Chicago, 1929 ; An African American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 ; St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton celebrate the vitality of Chicago's Bronzeville, 1945. Essays. Polish settlement in West Hammond, Illinois, 1890-1911 / Joseph C. Bigott ; Community life in Chicago's Packingtown, 1894-1922 / James R. Barrett.
• Chapter 11: Leisure time and popular culture, 1890-1956. Documents. Reformer Belle Israels Moskowitz tells how working girls want to have fun, 1909 ; Collier's Magazine tells how city children adapted baseball, 1911 ; The Rev. John J. Phelan assesses movies in Toledo, Ohio, 1919 ; Elisa Silva describes her job in a Los Angeles dance hall, 1920s ; Mexican ballads justify and condemn immigration, 1924 ; Bachelors explain why they attend taxi-dance halls, ca. 1930. Essays. The institutional world of urban bachelors / Howard P. Chudacoff ; Familiar sounds of change in Mexican Los Angeles / George J. Sánchez.
• Chapter 12: Race and redevelopment, 1945-1975. Documents. Warren J. Vinton, a public housing administrator, sees a rosy future for redevelopment, 1949 ; A real estate speculator explains the fine art of blockbusting, 1962 ; E. Gomillia and Lorene Gomillia plead for their neighborhood to be spared from urban renewal, 1954 ; Charles Haar, a Presidential adviser, tries to predict America's urban future, 1967 ; Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales presents a plan for improving Latino neighborhoods, 1968 ; Construction and demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project, St. Louis, Missouri. Essays. From the first ghetto to the second ghetto / Arnold R. Hirsch ; Urban renewal in Boston: successes and controversies / Thomas H. O'Connor.
• Chapter 13: Sprawl, 1945 to the present. Documents. Time Magazine admires the construction of Levittown, New York, 1950 ; Lewis Mumford attacks mass suburbia, 1961 ; Jean Gottmann proclaims the emergence of an East Coast megalopolis, 1961 ; Joel Garreau discerns the spread of edge cities, 1991 ; James Howard Kunstler criticizes the automobile suburb, 1993. Essays. The environmental costs of postwar sprawl / Adam W. Rome ; The flaws of anti-sprawl arguments / Robert Bruegmann.
• Chapter 14: The shift to a postindustrial city, 1945 to the present. Documents. Chicago steelworkers endure unemployment, ca. 1985 ; Marc Cooper finds a "class.war@silicon.valley," 1996 ; David Barringer exposes the limited benefits of "carnival cities," 1997 ; Twenty-five largest American cities, 2000 (map and population table). Essays. The deindustrialization of Detroit / Thomas J. Sugrue ; New immigrants in a changing Los Angeles / Janet L. Abu-Lughod.
• Chapter 15: Violence and the search for security, 1980 to the present. Documents. The rise and decline of murder in New York, 1964-2002 ; Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder describe the trend toward gated communities, 1997 ; William H. Lucy debunks the myth of "exurban" safety, 2000 ; Andres Duany applauds gentrification, 2001 ; Molly Smithsimon warns of the rise of urban surveillance, 2003. Essays. Tolerating chaos and restoring order / Norman Podhoretz ; Urban form and globalization after September 11th / Peter Marcuse.

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ISBN

• 0618432760
• 9780618432769

LCCN

2003115592

OCLC

57133136

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