Community and Social Change in America

Bender, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0801829240 / ISBN 13: 9780801829246

Edité par Johns Hopkins University Press (edition 48860th), 2000

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Synopsis :

Did urbanization kill 'community' in the nineteenth century, or even earlier? In this highly regarded volume Bender argues not only that community survivedthe trials of industrialization and urbanization but that it remains a fundamental element of American society today.

À propos de l?auteur: Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Community and Social Change in America
Éditeur : Johns Hopkins University Press (edition 48860th)
Date d'édition : 2000
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Fair
Edition : 48860th.