{"product_id":"the-modern-american-metropolis-9781444339000","title":"The Modern American Metropolis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces the history of American cities and suburbs through a collection of original source materials that historians have long used to make sense of the urban experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCarefully integrates and juxtaposes the primary sources that are at the heart of the collection\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRevisits and compares issues and themes over time\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals how the history of cities and suburbs is not limited to buildings, innovation, and politics, and not confined to municipal boundaries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores a wide variety of topics, including infrastructure development, electoral politics, consumer culture, battles over rights, environmental change, and the meaning of citizenship\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction Or, What Can a Wet Basement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTell Us about Metropolitan History? 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Cities and Hinterlands in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America 27\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 Transforming the Landscape and Its Functions 29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Chicago’s Daily Democrat Measures the Impact of the Transport Revolution, 1852 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cyrus McCormick Markets the Virginia Reaper to the Nation’s Farmers, 1850 and 1851 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Texans Appeal for the Removal of Native Peoples, 1858–1859 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine Discusses the Value of Slave Labor, 1855–1858 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 Snapshots of Urban Life on the Eve of the Civil War 50\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 An Irish Immigrant Writes Home about Life in the United States, 1850 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Frederick Law Olmsted Compares Northern and Southern Cities along the Atlantic Seaboard, 1856 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The New York Times Reports on a Millworker Strike in Lynn and Marblehead, 1859 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Reverend Albert Williams Describes San Francisco’s Fires 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II From Walking City to Industrial Metropolis, 1860–1920 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 Commerce and the Metropolis 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 Connects the Nation 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 William Dean Howells Describes Suburban Boston, 1872 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 August Spies Addresses Workers about Their Conditions, 1886 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 An Engineer Describes the Work Required to Make Seattle Competitive, 1908 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 New York City Retailers Organize to Protect a Fifth Avenue Shopping District, 1916 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 “Natives,” Migrants, and Immigrants 90\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Polish Immigrant Describes Life and Work in New York City, 1902 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Unions Call for Boycott of Chinese and Their Patrons, 1891–1892 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 La Crónica Reports on Challenges Facing the Texan Mexican Community, 1910–1911 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Good Housekeeping Counsels “The Commuter’s Wife,” 1909 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Black Southerners Write the Chicago Defender for Information about Employment, 1916–1918 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 Big City Life 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Urban Imagery, 1889–1913 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A Young Governess Discusses Her New Freedoms, 1903 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A Columnist Describes the Pleasures and Perils of Coney Island, 1915 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A Harper’s Weekly Columnist Worries about Garbage, 1891 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 Local Politics in the Gilded Age 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 George Washington Plunkitt Defends Patronage Politics in New York City, 1905 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Dallas City Commissioner Advocates Running a City Like a Business, 1909 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Jane Addams Describes the Goals of Hull House, 1893 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 An Economist Investigates Employers’ Response to Labor Unions 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III City and Suburb Ascendant, 1920–1945 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 Commerce, Consumption, and the Suburban Trend 157\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 An Investment Banker Insists that “Everyone Ought to Be Rich,” 1929 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Commerce and the Good Life 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Former Employees Describe Finding Work and Building Cars for Ford Motor Company 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Alfred Kazin Recalls New York City’s Ethnic Boundaries Before World War II 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 A Social Scientist Explains the “Suburban Trend,” 1925 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Suburban Speculation Creates Empty Subdivisions, 1925 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 Economic Collapse and Metropolitan Crisis 182\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The New Deal Rebuilds the Metropolis during the Great Depression 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Jane Yoder Describes Living through the Depression in a Central Illinois Mining Town 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Langston Hughes Remembers Rent Parties in Harlem 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Jose Yglesias Describes the 1930s in Tampa and New York City 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 The Metropolis at War 194\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The LA Chamber of Commerce Coordinates the Region’s War Production Efforts, 1942–1943 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Henry Cervantes Describes His Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to World War II Hero 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 White Transit Workers Walk Off the Job in Philadelphia, 1944 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Recounts Her Family’s Forced Relocation from Santa Monica, California 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Creating a Suburban Nation, 1945–1970s 215\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10 “The Affluent Society” 217\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Veterans Line Up for Homes in Long Island, 1949 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Sunset Magazine Markets a Suburban Way of Living, 1946 and 1958 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Ebony Discusses Homeownership and Domestic Life for a Steelworker’s Family in Gary, Indiana, 1957 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Catherine Marshall Defends a Woman’s Right to Work, 1954 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11 Public Policy and “Best Use” in American Neighborhoods 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Federal Housing Administration Defines Value in Single-Family Suburban Housing 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A US Senator Argues That Military Spending Is Producing Inequality, 1962 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Herbert Gans Critiques Federal Urban Renewal Programs, 1959 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 U.S. News and World Report Warns of Contaminated Suburban Water Supplies, 1963 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12 Metropolitan Contests over Citizenship, Rights, and Access 244\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Local Activists Organize a Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, 1954 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Suburban Homeowners Mobilize to Exclude “Incompatible” Development, 1950–1951 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Residents of a Memphis Neighborhood Block Construction of the Interstate, 1967 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Activists Define Black Power, 1967 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Gays and Lesbians in New York City Organize to Combat Discrimination, 1969 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Photograph Captures Divisions in Boston over Court-Ordered Busing, 1976 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V What Makes a City? The “Postindustrial” Metropolis 269\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13 Redefining “Urban” and “Suburban” 271\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 U.S. Steel Demolishes Its Plant in Youngstown, Ohio, 1983 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Hoboken Residents Debate the “Yuppie” Invasion, 1984–1987 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Jersey City Markets Itself to a New Demographic, 2003 and 2006 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A Professor Explains How Urban Redevelopment Has Impacted Los Angeles’s Minority Communities, 1987\/1988 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Planners Assess an Experiment in “New Urbanism” (Before the Great Recession), 1999 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 14 Growth and Its Challenges 292\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Global Economy and Global Politics Create New Challenges in the Twin Cities Region, 2012 292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 College Students in Merced Rent Empty McMansions, 2011 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Great Wall of Los Angeles Pictures the Region’s Development History, 1974 to the Present 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 City Building in Kansas: An Immigrant’s Perspective, 2007 300\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Developers in Los Angeles County Spark a Twenty-First-Century Debate over City Building and\u003cbr\u003eEnvironmental Protection, 2009 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 319\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408393380183,"sku":"9781444339000","price":38.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444339000.jpg?v=1730502737","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-modern-american-metropolis-9781444339000","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}