Shantytown, USA : forgotten landscapes of the working poor / Lisa Goff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goff, Lisa, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Squatter settlements--United States--History--19th century.

Squatter settlements.

Squatter settlements--United States--History--20th century.

Slums--United States--History--19th century.

Slums.

Slums--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Walden, a Shanty or a House?

2. Shanties on the Western Frontier

3. Shantytowns on the Urban Frontier

4. A Working-Poor Ideology of Dwelling

5. Squatter Sovereignty: Shantytown’s Broadway Debut

6. Transformed by Art and Journalism

7. African-American Shantytowns 1860–1940

8. Depression-Era Shantytowns

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780674968981

0674968980

9780674968967

0674968964

OCLC:

945698874