Thomas Bender is Dean for the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science, University Professor of the Humanities, and professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision, Community and Social Change in America, New York Intellect, and Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930.

Lively and provocative... A stunning critique of the definition of community common in twentieth-century theory... Graceful and intelligent throughout. American Historical Review

Thomas Bender is Dean for the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science, University Professor of the Humanities, and professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision, Community and Social Change in America, New York Intellect, and Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930.

Lively and provocative... A stunning critique of the definition of community common in twentieth-century theory... Graceful and intelligent throughout. American Historical Review