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Property Values : The Rise and Fall of the American Homeowner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Specht, Joshua.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A wide-ranging history of American land ownership, from westward expansion to the suburban housing crisis From its very beginnings, the United States has defined itself by its relationship to land.Settlers saw the continent as the raw material for building a prosperous life while their leaders viewed it as a means for building a people.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Colony of Virginia, 1748
- Part I: Landed Democracy
- 1. Columbia County, New York, 1844
- 2. Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas Territory, 1856
- 3. Savannah, Georgia, 1864
- 4. Nicodemus, Kansas, 1886
- 5. Chicago, Illinois, 1893
- Part II: The Ownership Society
- 6. Somewhere Outside Phoenix, Arizona, 1936
- 7. Levittown, Pennsylvania, 1957
- 8. Los Angeles, California, 1978
- 9. Celebration, Florida, 1996
- 10. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008
- Epilogue: Paradise, California, 2025
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Specht, Joshua Property Values
- ISBN:
- 9780691238203
- 9780691291543
- OCLC:
- 1601988825
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