The Rise of Urban America

ISBN-13: 9780415418058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 184 str.

Constance McLaughlin Green

Opis

Deals with the rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s. This book traces the forces - economic, political, social - that led to urban civilization, beginning with the growth of colonial seaports and local government, and the rise of new cities that competed for wealth and power with the older cities.

Spis treści

1. The first century of American urban life

2. From colonial entrepots to cities of a new nation

3. 'Manifest Destiny'

4. The impact of industrialisation 1860-1910

5. Social and political adjustments 1860-1910

6. The swing of the pendulum

7. Effects of the new deal and war

8. The population explosion and a changing urban world

 

 

O autorze

Constance Mclauglin Green