The Making of Urban America

by Mohl, Raymond A.

• ISBN13: 9780842022705
• ISBN10: 0842022708
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-01-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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
The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700-1820	p. 15
Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel "Riots" and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City	p. 37
The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern Cities	p. 53
The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social Order	p. 73
The Centrality of the Horse in the Nineteenth-Century American City	p. 105
Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913	p. 131
The "Poor Man's Friend": Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1870-1920	p. 153
Leisure and Labor	p. 167
Chicago's 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban Violence	p. 187
Music and Mass Culture in Mexican-American Los Angeles	p. 231
The New Deal in Dallas	p. 249
Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New Orleans	p. 265
Blacks and Hispanics in Multicultural America: A Miami Case Study	p. 283
Bold New City or Built-up 'Burb? Redefining Contemporary Suburbia	p. 309
New Perspectives on American Urban History	p. 335
Index	p. 375
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