One of the major growth fields of the past quarter century, American urban history has generated a rich and diverse literature spanning a number of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. In this time of transition, historians and practitioners alike can benefit greatly from assessing the contributions of the field. This valuable reference work takes a critical approach to existing literature. Dealing with various related avenues of the field which have not always been closely linked together, these essays ...
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One of the major growth fields of the past quarter century, American urban history has generated a rich and diverse literature spanning a number of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. In this time of transition, historians and practitioners alike can benefit greatly from assessing the contributions of the field. This valuable reference work takes a critical approach to existing literature. Dealing with various related avenues of the field which have not always been closely linked together, these essays provide a basis for new synthesis and reinterpretation, as well as for judgment about the lasting effects of the American urban experience.
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Good. 8vo, cloth, good copy, binding a little aslant from poor shelf storage, ownership signature of Joel Tarr, one of the contributors, and with his ink underlining and marks to about 20 pp. A well known professor of urban studies and history at CMU, Tarr cowrote along with Josef W. Konvits "Patterns in the Development of the Urban Infrastructure" in this book. 328 pp.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. This book provides a review of the literature of United States urban history; individual chapters cover the major strands that make urban history a distinctive field of study; contributors include, in addition to the editors, Alan Marcus, Andrea Kornbluh, Leonard Wallock, Jon Teaford, Edward Muller, Eugenie Birch, Richard Longstreth, Joel Tarr, Josef Konvitz, Michael Ebner, Carol O'Connor, Patricia Melvin, Carl Abbott, Robert Dykstra, William Silag (black cloth with gold lettering on front & spine, slight dent on spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
