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Brooklyn USA : the fourth largest city in America / Rita Seiden Miller, editor.
LIBRA - Rare F129.B7 B74 1976 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Brooklyn, 1976 Symposium (1976 : Brooklyn College)
- Series:
- Studies on society in change ; 7.
- Studies on society in change ; no. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Congresses.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Congresses.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 371 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn] : Published by Brooklyn College Press ; New York : distributed by Columbia University Press, 1979.
- Contents:
- Historical perspectives
- Symbols and nostalgia
- Contemporary communities
- Public education: changing populations and changing policies
- Brooklyn, USA: The present and the future
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "'Brooklyn, USA: The Fourth Largest City in America,' is a collection of edited papers, most of which were originally presented at 'Brooklyn, 1976: A Social Science Symposium at Brooklyn College,' December 8 and 9, 1976."--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1980".
- ISBN:
- 0930888022 :
- OCLC:
- 6143627
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