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University of California Press

America Becomes Urban

The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780–1980

by Eric H. Monkkonen (Author)
Price: $49.95 / £42.00
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9780520377127
Trim Size: 6 x 9

About the Book

America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an unexpected and welcome sense of our urban origins. His historically anchored vision of our cities places topics of finance, housing, social mobility, transportation, crime, planning, and growth into a perspective which explains the present in terms of the past and ofers a point from which to plan for the future.
 
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988 with a paperback in 1990.
 

About the Author

Eric H. Monkkonen was Professor of History and Policy Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Author of The Local State and America Becomes Urban, he is also editor of the eleven-volume Crime and Justice in American History.

Reviews

"The best reinterpretation of American urban history in the last twenty-five years."—Roger w. Lotchin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
"A challenging analytical framework that can guide the discipline of urban history into its second half century."—Kenneth t. Jackson, Mellon Professor of History and of the Social Sciences, Columbia University