Between City and Country Brookline, Massachusetts, and the Origins of Suburbia / Ronald Dale Karr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karr, Ronald Dale, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburban life--United States--History.

Suburban life.

Suburbs--Social aspects--United States--History.

Suburbs.

Urban-rural migration--United States--History--19th century--Case studies.

Urban-rural migration.

Suburbs--United States--History--19th century--Case studies.

Brookline (Mass.)--History--19th century.

Brookline (Mass.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

Summary:

Since 1945, American popular culture has portrayed suburbia as a place with a culture, politics, and economy distinct from cities, towns, and rural areas.In Between City and Country , Ronald Dale Karr examines the evolution of Brookline, Boston's most renowned nineteenth-century suburb, arguing that a distinctively suburban way of life appeared.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction: In Search of Suburbia

Part 1. Town into Suburb, 1790-1850

1. New England Town

2. Commuters and Immigrants

Part 2. Inventing Suburbia, 1850-1885

3. The Great Divide

4. Building Blocks

5. The New Landscape of Suburban Politics

6. Suburbia Real and Imagined

Part 3. Suburbia Realized, 1885-1900

7. Boulevards and Trolleys

8. Defining Suburbia

9. Contested Ground

10. Suburbia on a Hill

Epilogue

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-562-2

OCLC:

1043662343