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The Making of Urban America

The Making of Urban America( )
Editor: Mohl, Raymond A.
Biles, Roger
Contribution by: Avila, Eric
Collins, Timothy M.
Czitrom, Daniel
Harris, Leslie M.
Hirsch, Arnold R.
Katz, Michael B.
Miller, Randall M.
Muller, Edward K.
Nash, Gary B.
Odem, Mary E.
Pacyga, Dominic A.
Peiss, Kathy
Powers, Madelon
Sugrue, Thomas J.
Tan, Joel A.
ISBN:978-0-7425-5235-7
Publication Date:Nov 2011
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $79.00
Book Description:

This revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. This book is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.

Book Details
Pages:464
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.15 x 10.04 x 1.08 Inches
Book Weight:2.13 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Arnold Richard Hirsch was born on March 9, 1949. He received a bachelor's degree in 1970 and a Ph.D. in history in 1978 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His best-known book, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960, was published in 1983. He also edited two collections, one on creole New Orleans and the other on urban policy in 20th-century America. He began teaching history at the University of New Orleans in 1970 and was an emeritus professor there at the time of his death. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease and Lewy body disease on March 19, 2018 at the age of 69.

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