Contributor
McKelvey, Blake, 1903-2000.
Imprint:London : Allen and Unwin ; New York : Barnes and Noble, [1969]
Descriptionxii, 229 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Note:The 37 documents appended are grouped chronologically: The colonial ports -- Cities in the early federal period -- The first urban frontier -- Cities as nurseries of enterprise -- Urban reconstruction and diffusion -- Cities in the progressive movement -- Metropolitan regionalism -- The metropolis in prosperity and depression -- The metropolis is war and peace -- The metropolis and the federal government.
Note:McKelvey's long summary essay (introduction) attempts to review reasons for America's "rapid and astonishing transformation" in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and to provide context for the documents appended. He believes that "two of the most remarkable of recent developments -- the tremendous growth of national as contrasted with state power, and the widespread emergence of dynamic but somewhat impotent metropolitan communities" -- lies at the root of this transformation. McKelvey pays tribute to historians whose major studies serve as basis for his own review: Carl Bridenbaugh, Charles N. Glaab, Constance M. Green, Roy Lubove, John W. Reps, Bayrd Still, and Richard C. Wade. -- Preface
