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Urban growth and city-systems in the United States, 1840-1860 / Allan Pred.
LIBRA HT123 .P69
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pred, Allan, 1936-2007.
- Series:
- Harvard studies in urban history
- Harvard studies in urban history.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--United States--Growth--History.
- Cities and towns.
- United States.
- Growth.
- History.
- Urbanization--United States--History.
- Urbanization.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 282 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980.
- Summary:
- In the major new work of urban history, Allan Pred interprets the process by which major cities grew and the entire city-system of the United States developed during the antebellum decades 1840-1860. This period was marked by the most rapid urbanization the nation has ever seen. It was a time not only of industrialization but also of massive reorganization of the country's resources.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674930916
- OCLC:
- 6304362
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