Schnore The New Urban History

Quantitative Explorations by American Historians
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7101-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Schnore, Leo Francis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Series Preface, pg. vii
Contents, pg. xi
Further Reflections on the “New” Urban History: A Prefatory Note, pg. 1
Two Cheers for Quantitative History: An Agnostic Foreword, pg. 12
1. Large-City Interdependence and the Pre-Electronic Diffusion of Innovations in the United States, pg. 51
2. Growth of the Central Districts in Large Cities, pg. 75
3. Urban Deconcentration in the Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Inquiry, pg. 110
4. Patterns of Residence in Early Milwaukee, pg. 145
5. Urban Blacks in the South, 1865-1920: The Richmond, Savannah, New Orleans, Louisville and Birmingham Experience, pg. 184
6. Fundamentalism and Urbanization: A Quantitative Critique of Impressionistic Interpretations, pg. 205
7. Urbanization and Slavery: The Issue of Compatibility, pg. 231
8. Urbanization and Inventiveness in the United States, 1870-1920, pg. 247
9. Firm Location and Optimal City Size in American History, pg. 260
The Contributors, pg. 274
Index of Names and Places, pg. 277