The Making of Urban America

by Mohl, Raymond A.

• ISBN13: 9780842026390
• ISBN10: 0842026398
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Scholarly Resources Inc

Summary

The process by which a group of small colonial settlements in an untamed wilderness grew into a highly industrialized and urbanized nation is one of the central and most important themes of American history. The updated Making of Urban America provi

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part One: The Preindustrial City
Introduction	3	(12)
The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700-1820	15	(22)
Gary B. Nash
Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel ``Riots'' and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City	37	(16)
Timothy J. Gilfoyle
The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern Cities	53	(20)
Randall M. Miller
The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social Order	73	(32)
Mary Ryan
Part Two: The Industrial City
Introduction	93	(12)
The Centrality of the Horse in the Nineteenth-Century American City	105	(26)
Clay McShane
Joel A. Tarr
Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913	131	(22)
Daniel Czitrom
The ``Poor Man's Friend'': Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1870-1920	153	(14)
Madelon Powers
Leisure and Labor	167	(20)
Kathy Peiss
Chicago's 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban Violence	187	(44)
Dominic A. Pacyga
Part Three: The Twentieth-Century City
Introduction	211	(20)
Music and Mass Culture in Mexican-American Los Angeles	231	(18)
George J. Sanchez
The New Deal in Dallas	249	(16)
Roger Biles
Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New Orleans	265	(18)
Arnold R. Hirsch
Blacks and Hispanics in Multicultural America: A Miami Case Study	283	(26)
Raymond A. Mohl
Bold New City or Built-up `Burb? Redefining Contemporary Suburbia	309	(26)
William Sharpe
Leonard Wallock
Part Four: The Historiography of Urban America
New Perspectives on American Urban History	335	(40)
Raymond A. Mohl
Index	375