The American Urban Reader

History and Theory
2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-04106-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 780 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1442 g

Reihe: Routledge Readers in History

The American Urban Reader, Second Edition, brings together the most exciting and cutting-edge work on the history of urban forms and ways of life in the evolution of the United States, from pre-colonial Native American Indian cities, colonial European settlements, and western expansion, to rapidly expanding metropolitan regions, the growth of suburbs, and post-industrial cities.

Each chapter is arranged chronologically and thematically around scholarly essays from historians, social scientists, and journalists, and is supplemented by relevant primary documents that offer more nuanced perspectives and convey the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the study of the urban condition. Building upon the success of the First Edition, and responding to increasingly polarized national discourse in the era of Donald Trump’s presidency, The American Urban Reader, Second Edition, highlights both the historical urban/rural divide and the complexity and deeply woven salience of race and ethnic relations in American history.

Lisa Krissoff Boehm and Steven H. Corey, who together hold forty-five years of classroom experience in urban studies and history, have selected a range of work that is dynamically written and carefully edited to be accessible to students and appropriate for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how American cities have developed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krissoff Boehm, Lisa

Corey, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Part I: Place Matters: Definitions and Perspectives

Editors’ Introduction to Part I

Essays

1.1 Steven H. Corey and Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Examining America’s Urban Landscape: From Social Reform to Social History, and Back (2010, 2019)

1.2 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., The City in American Civilization (1949)

1.3 Herbert J. Gans, Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions (1962, 1991)

1.4. William H. Frey, Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs (2018)

Documents

1.1 John H. Griscom, The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York (1845)

1.2 Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, Hull-House, A Social Settlement (1894)

1.3 W.E.B. DuBois, The Environment of the Negro (1898)

Illustrations

I.1 Senator Tillman’s Allegorical Cow (1896)

I.2 ERNEST W. BURGESS, Urban Areas (1925)

Part II: Pre-Columbian and European Foundations

Editors’ Introduction to Part II

Essays

2.1 Lisa Krissoff Boehm and Steven H. Corey, Pre-Colonial and Seventeenth-Century Native American Settlements (2015)

2.2 David J. Weber, Frontier and Frontier Peoples Transformed (1992)

2.3 Emma Hart, "To Plant in Towns": Charles Towne at the Founding of Carolina (2010)

Documents

2.1 The ‘Lost’ Native American City of Etzanoa (1602)

2.2 Henry Marie Brackenridge, Envisioning Great American Indian Cities (1813)

2.3 John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

2.4 Benjamin Bullivant, Philadelphia in 1697

2.5 An Act for Establishing Ports and Towns (1705)

Part III: From British to American Cities

Editors’ Introduction to Part III

3.1 Pauline Maier, Boston

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Krissoff Boehm is Dean of the College of Graduate Studies at Bridgewater State University. She is the author of Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago and Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration.

Steven H. Corey is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Columbia College Chicago. He has written for Environmental Ethics, PS: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Urban History, and was research curator for Garbage! The History and Politics of Trash in New York City.