America Becomes Urban: The Development Of U.S. Cities & Towns 1780-1980
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Across two sweeping centuries of growth, transformation, and relentless change, America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities & Towns 1780–1980 chronicles the dramatic rise of the American urban landscape, tracing how a predominantly rural, agrarian nation remade itself into a civilization defined by cities. Eric H. Monkkonen presents a rigorous yet accessible historical account that unpacks the social, economic, and political forces that shaped U.S. cities and towns from the post-Revolutionary era through the late twentieth century, illuminating the complex interplay between municipal governance, population growth, immigration, and industrial capitalism. Monkkonen's scholarship is distinguished by its analytical precision and its refusal to reduce urban history to mere biography of great cities — instead, he argues that the patterns of American urbanisation reveal fundamental truths about democracy, inequality, and the evolving role of government in everyday life. Drawing on a wealth of quantitative data and historical evidence, his prose is authoritative and methodical, grounding broad structural arguments in concrete historical detail. Published by the University of California Press, this work stands as an essential reference for historians, urban planners, and anyone captivated by the question of how America's cities came to be — and what they ultimately say about the nation itself.
Author: Eric H. Monkkonen
Format: Paperback
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Across two sweeping centuries of growth, transformation, and relentless change, America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities & Towns 1780–1980 chronicles the dramatic rise of the American urban landscape, tracing how a predominantly rural, agrarian nation remade itself into a civilization defined by cities. Eric H. Monkkonen presents a rigorous yet accessible historical account that unpacks the social, economic, and political forces that shaped U.S. cities and towns from the post-Revolutionary era through the late twentieth century, illuminating the complex interplay between municipal governance, population growth, immigration, and industrial capitalism. Monkkonen's scholarship is distinguished by its analytical precision and its refusal to reduce urban history to mere biography of great cities — instead, he argues that the patterns of American urbanisation reveal fundamental truths about democracy, inequality, and the evolving role of government in everyday life. Drawing on a wealth of quantitative data and historical evidence, his prose is authoritative and methodical, grounding broad structural arguments in concrete historical detail. Published by the University of California Press, this work stands as an essential reference for historians, urban planners, and anyone captivated by the question of how America's cities came to be — and what they ultimately say about the nation itself.