Description |
x, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Historical studies of urban America
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Note |
Based on a conference held at Princeton University in Feb. 2004. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-274) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: The new suburban history / Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue -- Marketing the free market : state intervention and the politics of prosperity in metropolitan America / David M.P. Freund -- Less than plessy : the inner city, suburbs, and state-sanctioned residential segregation in the age of Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Uncovering the city in the suburb : Cold War politics, scientific elites, and high-tech spaces / Margaret Pugh O'Mara -- How hell moved from the city to the suburbs : urban scholars and changing perceptions of authentic community / Becky Nicolaides -- "The house I live in" : race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese -- "Socioeconomic integration" in the suburbs : from reactionary populism to class fairness in metropolitan Charlotte / Matthew D. Lassiter -- Prelude to the tax revolt : the politics of the "tax dollar" in postwar California / Robert O. Self -- Suburban growth and its discontents : the logic and limits of reform on the postwar Northeast corridor / Peter Siskind -- Reshaping the American dream : immigrants, ethnic minorities, and the politics of the new suburbs / Michael Jones-Correa -- The legal technology of exclusion in metropolitan America / Gerald Frug. |
Subject |
Suburbs -- United States -- History -- Congresses
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Metropolitan areas -- United States -- History -- Congresses
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Added Author |
Kruse, Kevin Michael 1972-
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Sugrue, Thomas J. 1962-
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ISBN |
9780226456638 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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