The Rise of Urban America
eBook - ePub

The Rise of Urban America

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Rise of Urban America

About this book

The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer Prize historian.

Constance McLaughlin Green traces the forces - economic, political, social - that led to today's urban civilization, beginning with the growth of colonial seaports and local government, the rise of new cities that competed for wealth and power with the older cities, the spread of industrialization, transportation and communications that made complex city life possible. She discussed the influence of city life on art and architecture, the impact of depression and prosperity upon urban centres, and analyses present-day problems - race-relations, the population explosion, automation, the rise of suburbia, and the development of the 'megapolis' that links city with city in one vast urban interstate region.

This book was first published in 1966.

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Information

Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780415418058
eBook ISBN
9781135679750
Edition
1
Subtopic
Geography

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. CONTENTS
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 The First Century of American Urban Life
  11. 2 From Colonial Entrepots to Cities of a New Nation
  12. 3 ‘Manifest Destiny’
  13. 4 The Impact of Industrialisation 1860-1910
  14. 5 Social and Political Adjustments 1860-1910
  15. 6 The Swing of the Pendulum
  16. 7 Effects of the New Deal and War
  17. 8 The Population Explosion and a Changing Urban World
  18. Select Bibliography
  19. Index