{"product_id":"the-suburb-reader-9781138818583","title":"The Suburb Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environmentit has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmploying over 200 primary sources, illustrations, and critical essays,\u003cem\u003e The Suburb Reader\u003c\/em\u003e documents the rise of North American suburbanization from the 1700s through the present day. Through thematically organized chapters it explores multiple facets of suburbia's creation and addresses its indelible impact on the shaping of gender and family ideologies, politics, race relations, technology, design, and public policy. Becky Nicolaides' and Andrew Wiese's concise commentaries introduce the selections and contextualize the major themes of ea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Suburb Reader\u003c\/em\u003e is the essential guide to the history of the world’s first suburban nation. Nicolaides and Wiese have assembled an extraordinary collection of documents, illustrations, and maps, augmented with well-chosen essays by field-defining scholars. I can’t wait to teach this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Thomas J. Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fabulous collection brings together richly textured documents and classic scholarly essays to illuminate how the United States became a suburban nation. Ideally suited for students, scholars, and general readers, the book includes multiple views of the suburbs—pro and con—and delves deeply into issues of race, class, gender, and politics. \u003cem\u003eThe Suburb Reader\u003c\/em\u003e enriches our understanding not only of suburbia, but of America itself. \u003cbr\u003e—Elaine Tyler May, author of \u003cem\u003eHomeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: The Emergence of Suburbia 1750-1940\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. The Transnational Origins of the Elite Suburb \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Family and Gender in the Making of Suburbia\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Technology and Decentralization \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Economic and Class Diversity on the Early Suburban Fringe\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Politics of Early Suburbia \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Imagining Suburbia: Visions and Plans from the Turn of the Century \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Other Suburbanites: class, racial, \u0026amp; ethnic diversity in early suburbia \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Tools of Exclusion: From Local Initiatives to Federal Policy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Postwar Suburbia 1940-1970\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Postwar America: Suburban Apotheosis \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Culture Wars: Polarized Constructions of Suburban Life \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11.Postwar Suburbs and the Construction of Race\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The City-Suburb Divide \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Recent Suburbia, 1970 to the Present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. The Political Culture of Suburbia \u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Suburban Transformations Since 1970\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Economic and Class Transformations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Our Town: Enduring Exclusion in Recent Suburbia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17. The Future of Suburbia\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577848107351,"sku":"9781138818583","price":65.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138818583.jpg?v=1746096905","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-suburb-reader-9781138818583","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}