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Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends
Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
Häftad, 2012
604 kr
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Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California's urban housing markets, arguing that the …
Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal
Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
Häftad, 2012
288 kr
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"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep that encompasses New York, London, Toronto, and …
Purging the Poorest
Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
Häftad, 2013
350 kr
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The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In "Purging the Poorest", Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor." In the 1930s, two …
Planning the Home Front
Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run
Inbunden, 2013
464 kr
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Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a "date which will live in infamy"; before American soldiers landed on D-day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of Detroit, the bomber plant at Willow Run and the …
Building the South Side
Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919
Inbunden, 2004
876 kr
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"Building the South Side" explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. Robin F. Bachin examines the early days of the University of Chicago, Chicago's public parks, Comiskey Park, and the Black Belt to consider …
Building the South Side
Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919
Häftad, 2008
306 kr
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"Building the South Side" explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. Robin F. Bachin examines the early days of the University of Chicago, Chicago's public parks, Comiskey Park, and the Black Belt to consider …
Demolition Means Progress
Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis
Inbunden, 2015
851 kr
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In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress," suggesting that the struggling city could not move forward to greatness until the old plants …
World More Concrete
Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
Inbunden, 2014
876 kr
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Many people understand urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised, and even racist, tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In A World More Concrete, N. D. B. Connolly unearths a far more complex story. Connolly scrutinizes nearly …
Urban Appetites
Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Inbunden, 2014
876 kr
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Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international notoriety is a captivating one. The now-booming …
Crucibles of Black Empowerment
Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
Inbunden, 2014
357 kr
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The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer wasn't a serious one, and that it certainly …
Puerto Rican Citizen
History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City
Häftad, 2014
350 kr
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By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and distinctive migrant communities. …
Brown in the Windy City
Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
Häftad, 2014
323 kr
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Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernandez reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial …
Metropolitan Jews
Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
Inbunden, 2015
341 kr
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In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century urban …
Blood Runs Green
The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
Inbunden, 2015
903 kr
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It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The …
Colored Property
State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
Inbunden, 2007
1266 kr
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In "Colored Property", David M. P. Freund shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential neighborhoods after World War II - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and …
Colored Property
State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
Häftad, 2010
306 kr
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In "Colored Property", David M. P. Freund shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential neighborhoods after World War II - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and …
In the Watches of the Night
Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930
Häftad, 2015
262 kr
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Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. …
City of American Dreams
A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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The recent housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. "City of American Dreams" is an innovative history of our national obsession with real estate. Margaret Garb reveals that the aspiration for single-family home ownership was forged in impoverished immigrant …
Nation of Neighborhoods
Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America
Häftad, 2015
271 kr
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Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood …
Confederate Cities
The Urban South during the Civil War Era
Av Andrew L. Slap, Frank Towers
Häftad, 2015
288 kr
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When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the …
Selling the Race
Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955
Av Adam Green
Häftad, 2009
306 kr
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In "Selling the Race", Adam Green tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. Along the way, he offers fascinating …
Selling the Race
Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955
Av Adam Green
Inbunden, 2006
499 kr
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In "Selling the Race", Adam Green tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. Along the way, he offers fascinating …
City for Children
Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
Av Marta Gutman
Inbunden, 2014
429 kr
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While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, …
In the Shadow of Slavery
African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
Häftad, 2004
667 kr
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"The black experience in the antebellum South has been thoroughly documented. But histories set in the North are few. In the Shadow of Slavery, then, is a big and ambitious book, one in which insights about race and class in New York City abound. Leslie Harris has masterfully brought more than two …
Slumming
Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
Av Chad Heap
Häftad, 2010
358 kr
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In this fascinating history, Chad Heap reveals that the reality of slumming was far more widespread - and important - than nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a 'fashionable dissipation' centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New …
Urban Appetites
Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Häftad, 2015
218 kr
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Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international notoriety is a captivating one. The now-booming …
Newsprint Metropolis
City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
Inbunden, 2017
429 kr
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At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business and publishers were soon reeling off as many copies as Americans could be convinced to buy. Newspapers quickly saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were …
Blueprint for Disaster
The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
Häftad, 2010
323 kr
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"Blueprint for Disaster" traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government …
Streets of San Francisco
Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972
Häftad, 2016
262 kr
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During the Sixties the nation turned its eyes to San Francisco as the city's police force clashed with movements for free speech, civil rights, and sexual liberation. These conflicts on the street forced Americans to reconsider the role of the police officer in a democracy. In The Streets of San …
World More Concrete
Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
Häftad, 2016
297 kr
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Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In A World More Concrete, N. D. B. Connolly uses the history of South Florida to unearth an older and far …
