Modern bonds : redefining community in early twentieth-century St. Paul / Elizabeth Ann Duclos-Orsello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duclos-Orsello, Elizabeth Ann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community life--Minnesota--Saint Paul--History--20th century.

Community life.

Saint Paul (Minn.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Saint Paul (Minn.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]

Summary:

What does community mean, exactly? In this interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Ann Duclos-Orsello takes seriously the concept of community as an object of historical analysis. Focusing on St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1900 to 1920, Modern Bonds explores the diverse ways that its people renegotiated private and public affiliations during a period of modernization. The book examines a wide range of subjects and materials, including photographs from an African American family, fictional depictions of middle-class women, built environments that created enclaves of immigrants, and public festivals designed to unite all citizens. As Duclos-Orsello demonstrates, it was in this period that a complex set of activities, policies, and practices led to new understandings of community that continue to shape life today.

Contents:

Generous indifference, realism, sociology, and the experience of urban community in Sinclair Lewis Main Street

Images and imagining photographing community

Designing for community, building division solidarity and exclusion through architecture

Community and open space parks and playgrounds in St. Paul

Making it a hot one, for some the Winter Carnivals of 1916 and 1917.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-572-X

OCLC:

1031424998