The Making of Urban America
- ISBN-10
- 0742552357
- ISBN-13
- 9780742552357
- Series
- The Making of Urban America
- Category
- Cities and towns
- Pages
- 456
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
- Authors
- Roger Biles, Raymond A. Mohl
Description
This revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. This book is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.
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- 2021-10-12
- 592 pages
- Ebook
- Princeton University Press
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- 1965
- 574 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton University Press
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