The Modern American Metropolis

A Documentary Reader
Herausgegeben von Freund, David M. P.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader introduces 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.

Carefully integrates and juxtaposes the primary sources that are at the heart of the collection
Revisits and compares issues and themes over time
Reveals how the history of cities and suburbs is not limited to buildings, innovation, and politics, and not confined to municipal boundaries
Explores a wide variety of topics, including infrastructure development, electoral politics, consumer culture, battles over rights, environmental change, and the meaning of citizenship

Produktdetails

• Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781444339017
• ISBN-10: 144433901X
• Artikelnr.: 39736364

Autorenporträt

David M. P. Freund is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of the award-winning Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (2007) and contributor to numerous educational, documentary, and public policy projects.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xii Series Editors' Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi
Source Acknowledgments xvii Introduction Or, What Can a Wet Basement Tell
Us about Metropolitan History? 1 Part I Cities and Hinterlands in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century America 27 Chapter 1 Transforming the Landscape and
Its Functions 29 1 Chicago's Daily Democrat Measures the Impact of the
Transport Revolution, 1852 29 2 Cyrus McCormick Markets the Virginia Reaper
to the Nation's Farmers, 1850 and 1851 36 3 Texans Appeal for the Removal
of Native Peoples, 1858-1859 40 4 Hunt's Merchants' Magazine Discusses the
Value of Slave Labor, 1855-1858 45 Chapter 2 Snapshots of Urban Life on the
Eve of the Civil War 50 1 An Irish Immigrant Writes Home about Life in the
United States, 1850 50 2 Frederick Law Olmsted Compares Northern and
Southern Cities along the Atlantic Seaboard, 1856 53 3 The New York Times
Reports on a Millworker Strike in Lynn and Marblehead, 1859 60 4 Reverend
Albert Williams Describes San Francisco's Fires 63 Part II From Walking
City to Industrial Metropolis, 1860-1920 69 Chapter 3 Commerce and the
Metropolis 71 1 The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 Connects the Nation 71 2
William Dean Howells Describes Suburban Boston, 1872 75 3 August Spies
Addresses Workers about Their Conditions, 1886 80 4 An Engineer Describes
the Work Required to Make Seattle Competitive, 1908 84 5 New York City
Retailers Organize to Protect a Fifth Avenue Shopping District, 1916 87
Chapter 4 "Natives," Migrants, and Immigrants 90 1 A Polish Immigrant
Describes Life and Work in New York City, 1902 90 2 Unions Call for Boycott
of Chinese and Their Patrons, 1891-1892 96 3 La Crónica Reports on
Challenges Facing the Texan Mexican Community, 1910-1911 97 4 Good
Housekeeping Counsels "The Commuter's Wife," 1909 106 5 Black Southerners
Write the Chicago Defender for Information about Employment, 1916-1918 110
Chapter 5 Big City Life 118 1 Urban Imagery, 1889-1913 118 2 A Young
Governess Discusses Her New Freedoms, 1903 122 3 A Columnist Describes the
Pleasures and Perils of Coney Island, 1915 125 4 A Harper's Weekly
Columnist Worries about Garbage, 1891 129 Chapter 6 Local Politics in the
Gilded Age 135 1 George Washington Plunkitt Defends Patronage Politics in
New York City, 1905 135 2 Dallas City Commissioner Advocates Running a City
Like a Business, 1909 139 3 Jane Addams Describes the Goals of Hull House,
1893 141 4 An Economist Investigates Employers' Response to Labor Unions
147 Part III City and Suburb Ascendant, 1920-1945 155 Chapter 7 Commerce,
Consumption, and the Suburban Trend 157 1 An Investment Banker Insists that
"Everyone Ought to Be Rich," 1929 157 2 Commerce and the Good Life 159 3
Former Employees Describe Finding Work and Building Cars for Ford Motor
Company 160 4 Alfred Kazin Recalls New York City's Ethnic Boundaries Before
World War II 170 5 A Social Scientist Explains the "Suburban Trend," 1925
175 6 Suburban Speculation Creates Empty Subdivisions, 1925 179 Chapter 8
Economic Collapse and Metropolitan Crisis 182 1 The New Deal Rebuilds the
Metropolis during the Great Depression 182 2 Jane Yoder Describes Living
through the Depression in a Central Illinois Mining Town 185 3 Langston
Hughes Remembers Rent Parties in Harlem 187 4 Jose Yglesias Describes the
1930s in Tampa and New York City 190 Chapter 9 The Metropolis at War 194 1
The LA Chamber of Commerce Coordinates the Region's War Production Efforts,
1942-1943 194 2 Henry Cervantes Describes His Journey from Migrant Farm
Worker to World War II Hero 199 3 White Transit Workers Walk Off the Job in
Philadelphia, 1944 206 4 Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Recounts Her Family's
Forced Relocation from Santa Monica, California 208 Part IV Creating a
Suburban Nation, 1945-1970s 215 Chapter 10 "The Affluent Society" 217 1
Veterans Line Up for Homes in Long Island, 1949 217 2 Sunset Magazine
Markets a Suburban Way of Living, 1946 and 1958 219 3 Ebony Discusses
Homeownership and Domestic Life for a Steelworker's Family in Gary,
Indiana, 1957 223 4 Catherine Marshall Defends a Woman's Right to Work,
1954 226 Chapter 11 Public Policy and "Best Use" in American Neighborhoods
229 1 The Federal Housing Administration Defines Value in Single-Family
Suburban Housing 229 2 A US Senator Argues That Military Spending Is
Producing Inequality, 1962 232 3 Herbert Gans Critiques Federal Urban
Renewal Programs, 1959 236 4 U.S. News and World Report Warns of
Contaminated Suburban Water Supplies, 1963 240 Chapter 12 Metropolitan
Contests over Citizenship, Rights, and Access 244 1 Local Activists
Organize a Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, 1954 244 2 Suburban Homeowners
Mobilize to Exclude "Incompatible" Development, 1950-1951 250 3 Residents
of a Memphis Neighborhood Block Construction of the Interstate, 1967 253 4
Activists Define Black Power, 1967 257 5 Gays and Lesbians in New York City
Organize to Combat Discrimination, 1969 263 6 A Photograph Captures
Divisions in Boston over Court-Ordered Busing, 1976 264 Part V What Makes a
City? The "Postindustrial" Metropolis 269 Chapter 13 Redefining "Urban" and
"Suburban" 271 1 U.S. Steel Demolishes Its Plant in Youngstown, Ohio, 1983
271 2 Hoboken Residents Debate the "Yuppie" Invasion, 1984-1987 273 3
Jersey City Markets Itself to a New Demographic, 2003 and 2006 278 4 A
Professor Explains How Urban Redevelopment Has Impacted Los Angeles's
Minority Communities, 1987/1988 281 5 Planners Assess an Experiment in "New
Urbanism" (Before the Great Recession), 1999 286 Chapter 14 Growth and Its
Challenges 292 1 The Global Economy and Global Politics Create New
Challenges in the Twin Cities Region, 2012 292 2 College Students in Merced
Rent Empty McMansions, 2011 295 3 The Great Wall of Los Angeles Pictures
the Region's Development History, 1974 to the Present 298 4 City Building
in Kansas: An Immigrant's Perspective, 2007 300 5 Developers in Los Angeles
County Spark a Twenty-First-Century Debate over City Building and
Environmental Protection, 2009 305 Further Reading 313 Index 319