The Reportage of Urban Culture
Subtitle: Robert Park and the Chicago School (Ideas in Context)
Contributors: Adrian Morris (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780521026536
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Sociology, Social Studies; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Park, Robert Ezra, --1864-1944 Park, Robert E; Park, Robert Ezra,--1864-1944; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: 'So entirely absorbed do these urchins become in their vocation', wrote Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper about newspaper boys on 2 August 1856, 'that they keep up their cries along an entire block of buildings in which every house is closed and not a possible purchaser in sight.'