City People: The rise of modern city culture in nineteenth-century America. With pictures and anecdotes and a wealth of material drawn from the personal records of real people, 'City People' traces the emergence and dissemination of big-city culture in nineteenth-century America.
City People: The rise of modern city culture in nineteenth-century America. With pictures and anecdotes and a wealth of material drawn from the person...
The tension between nature and culture, which accompanies the rise of any large society, has become a subject of great concern in our time. In this compelling study, Gunther Barth, acclaimed author of City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, identifies fleeting moments of concord between nature and culture in the course of American history. During the search for the Wilderness Passage, the progress of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the building of park cemeteries and big city parks, Americans realized that nature was not merely a force to be...
The tension between nature and culture, which accompanies the rise of any large society, has become a subject of great concern in our time. In this co...
