The new suburban history
By: edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue.
Contributors: Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-; Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962-
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Suburbs -- United States -- History -- Congresses; Metropolitan areas -- United States -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a conference held at Princeton University in Feb. 2004.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The new suburban history / Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue; title: Marketing the free market : state intervention and the politics of prosperity in metropolitan America / David M.P. Freund; title: Less than plessy : the inner city, suburbs, and state-sanctioned residential segregation in the age of Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch; title: Uncovering the city in the suburb : Cold War politics, scientific elites, and high-tech spaces / Margaret Pugh O'Mara; title: How hell moved from the city to the suburbs : urban scholars and changing perceptions of authentic community / Becky Nicolaides; title: "The house I live in" : race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese; title: "Socioeconomic integration" in the suburbs : from reactionary populism to class fairness in metropolitan Charlotte / Matthew D. Lassiter; title: Prelude to the tax revolt : the politics of the "tax dollar" in postwar California / Robert O. Self; title: Suburban growth and its discontents : the logic and limits of reform on the postwar Northeast corridor / Peter Siskind; title: Reshaping the American dream : immigrants, ethnic minorities, and the politics of the new suburbs / Michael Jones-Correa; title: The legal technology of exclusion in metropolitan America / Gerald Frug.