America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980 - Couverture souple

Monkkonen, Eric H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520069722 ISBN 13 : 9780520069725

Editeur : University of California Press, 1990

Synopsis

America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an unexpected and welcome sense of our urban origins. His historically anchored vision of our cities places topics of finance, housing, social mobility, transportation, crime, planning, and growth into a perspective which explains the present in terms of the past and ofers a point from which to plan for the future.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eric H. Monkkonen is Professor of History and Policy Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Author of The Local State (1995) and America Becomes Urban (California, 1988), he is also editor of the eleven-volume Crime and Justice in American History (1991).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"The best reinterpretation of American urban history in the last twenty-five years."—Roger w. Lotchin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"A challenging analytical framework that can guide the discipline of urban history into its second half century."—Kenneth t. Jackson, Mellon Professor of History and of the Social Sciences, Columbia University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520069722
• ISBN 13: 9780520069725
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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