The new suburban history / edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Description
x, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

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      Series
      Historical studies of urban America [More in this series]
      Summary note
      America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as simply a refuge for affluent whites, this book rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. The seemingly calm streets of suburbia were, in fact, battlegrounds over race, class and politics.
      Notes
      Based on a conference held at Princeton University in Feb. 2004.
      Bibliographic references
      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.
      ISBN
      • 0226456625 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780226456621 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
      • 0226456633 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780226456638 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      2005029658
      OCLC
      62090790
      International Article Number
      • 9780226456638
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