The new suburban history edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kruse, Kevin M., 1972-

Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962-

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs--United States--History--Congresses.

Suburbs.

Metropolitan areas--United States--History--Congresses.

Metropolitan areas.

Physical Description:

x, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction: The new suburban history / Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue

Marketing the free market : state intervention and the politics of prosperity in metropolitan America / David M.P. Freund

Less than plessy : the inner city, suburbs, and state-sanctioned residential segregation in the age of Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch

Uncovering the city in the suburb : Cold War politics, scientific elites, and high-tech spaces / Margaret Pugh O'Mara

How hell moved from the city to the suburbs : urban scholars and changing perceptions of authentic community / Becky Nicolaides

"The house I live in" : race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese

"Socioeconomic integration" in the suburbs : from reactionary populism to class fairness in metropolitan Charlotte / Matthew D. Lassiter

Prelude to the tax revolt : the politics of the "tax dollar" in postwar California / Robert O. Self

Suburban growth and its discontents : the logic and limits of reform on the postwar Northeast corridor / Peter Siskind

Reshaping the American dream : immigrants, ethnic minorities, and the politics of the new suburbs / Michael Jones-Correa

The legal technology of exclusion in metropolitan America / Gerald Frug.

Notes:

Based on a conference held at Princeton University in Feb. 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-274) and index.

ISBN:

0226456625 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226456633 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

62090790

Publisher Number:

9780226456638 (pbk. : alk. paper)