Raymond A. Mohl is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Roger Biles is professor of history at Illinois State University.

Highly recommended for any involved in urban studies programs at the college level.

• PrefacePart I: The Preindustrial CityChapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700–1820Chapter 2: Slavery, Emancipation, and Class Formation in Colonial and Early National New York CityChapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern CitiesPart II: The Industrial CityChapter 4: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889–1913Chapter 5: The “Poor Man’s Friend”: Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1879–1920Chapter 6: Leisure and LaborChapter 7: Chicago’s 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban ViolenceChapter 8: Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers: From Industrial Infrastructure to Environmental AssetPart III: The Twentieth-Century MetropolisChapter 9: The New Deal in DallasChapter 10: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1840–1964Chapter 11: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban ImaginaryChapter 12: Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City HousingChapter 13: Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New OrleansChapter 14: Latino Immigrants and the Politics of Space in Atlanta Chapter 15: What Is an American City? Part IV: The Historiography of Urban AmericaChapter 16: New Perspectives on American Urban History

Raymond A. Mohl is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Roger Biles is professor of history at Illinois State University.

Highly recommended for any involved in urban studies programs at the college level.

• PrefacePart I: The Preindustrial CityChapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700–1820Chapter 2: Slavery, Emancipation, and Class Formation in Colonial and Early National New York CityChapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern CitiesPart II: The Industrial CityChapter 4: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889–1913Chapter 5: The “Poor Man’s Friend”: Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1879–1920Chapter 6: Leisure and LaborChapter 7: Chicago’s 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban ViolenceChapter 8: Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers: From Industrial Infrastructure to Environmental AssetPart III: The Twentieth-Century MetropolisChapter 9: The New Deal in DallasChapter 10: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1840–1964Chapter 11: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban ImaginaryChapter 12: Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City HousingChapter 13: Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New OrleansChapter 14: Latino Immigrants and the Politics of Space in Atlanta Chapter 15: What Is an American City? Part IV: The Historiography of Urban AmericaChapter 16: New Perspectives on American Urban History

Raymond A. Mohl is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Roger Biles is professor of history at Illinois State University.

Highly recommended for any involved in urban studies programs at the college level.

• PrefacePart I: The Preindustrial CityChapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700–1820Chapter 2: Slavery, Emancipation, and Class Formation in Colonial and Early National New York CityChapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern CitiesPart II: The Industrial CityChapter 4: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889–1913Chapter 5: The “Poor Man’s Friend”: Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1879–1920Chapter 6: Leisure and LaborChapter 7: Chicago’s 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban ViolenceChapter 8: Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers: From Industrial Infrastructure to Environmental AssetPart III: The Twentieth-Century MetropolisChapter 9: The New Deal in DallasChapter 10: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1840–1964Chapter 11: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban ImaginaryChapter 12: Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City HousingChapter 13: Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New OrleansChapter 14: Latino Immigrants and the Politics of Space in Atlanta Chapter 15: What Is an American City? Part IV: The Historiography of Urban AmericaChapter 16: New Perspectives on American Urban History