Contributor
Callow, Alexander B.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1969.
Descriptionxii, 674 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:I. THE CITY IN HISTORY: The modern city as a field of historical study / Oscar Handlin -- The city in American civilization / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- Some consequences of the urban movement in American history / W. Stull Holt -- The city as a social organism / Leo F. Schnore -- II. THE CITY IN COLONIAL AMERICA: One hundred years of urban growth / Carl Bridenbaugh -- Cities in revolt: conclusion / Carl Bridenbaugh -- The expansion of New England / Page Smith -- III. THE CITY IN THE ERA OF MANIFEST DESTINY: Urban life in western America, 1790-1830 / Richard C. Wade -- Problems of mid-19th century urbanization in the middle west / Bayrd Still -- Urban rivalry and internal improvements in the Old Northwest, 1820-1860 / Harry N. Scheiber -- The businessman as an American institution / Daniel J. Boorstin -- IV. THE CITY IN THE AGE OF INDUSTRY: The English and American industrial city of the 19th century / Leon S. Marshall -- The industrial city: center of cultural change / Ralph E. Turner -- The modern metropolis / Hans Blumenfeld -- V. THE CITY IN TRANSITION: The urban world / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- Generations / Oscar Handlin -- Beyond the melting pot / Nathan Glazer, Daniel P. Moynihan -- Harlem tragedy: an emerging slum / Gilbert Osofsky -- Urbanization, migration, and social mobility in late 19th-century America / Stephen Thernstrom -- Crime as an American way of life: a queer ladder of social mobility / Daniel Bell -- Latent functions of the machine / Robert K. Merton -- The politician and the machine / Mosei Ostrogorski -- The crusade against the Tweed Ring / Alexander B. Callow, Jr. -- VI. THE CITY IN THE AMERICAN MIND: The American intellectual versus the American city / Morton White, Lucia White -- The poet and the rise of the city / Robert H. Walker -- Urbanism and American democracy / Francis E. Rourke -- Some varieties of American urban symbolism / Anself L. Strauss -- The city in crisis / Scott Greer -- VII. THE CITY IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The politics of reform in municipal government in the progressive era / Samuel P. Hays -- Urban problems and the federal government: a historical inquiry / Daniel J. Elazar -- Implications of the new federal system / Charles Abrams -- American political parties and the rise of the city: an interpretation / Carl N. Degler -- VIII. THE CITY IN MODERN TIMES: Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth -- Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: a re-evaluation of definitions / Herbert J. Gans -- The end of the line: race and poverty in cities / Jeanne Lowe -- A study of ghetto rioters / Nathan S. Caplan, Jeffrey M. Paige -- Planning in the changing American city, 1900-1940 / John L. Hancock -- The failure of urban renewal / Herbert J. Gans -- Urban renewal: a controversy / George M. Raymond, Malcolm D. RIvkin, Herbert Gans -- Waiting for reality: birth of the megalopolis / Scott Greer -- IX. EPILOGUE: THE CITY AND THE HISTORIANS: On the dangers of an urban interpretation of history / William Diamond -- American historians and the study of urbanization / Eric E. Lampard -- The urbanization process: an approach to historical research / Roy Lubove -- The historian and the American city: a bibliographical survey / Charles N. Glaab.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
