American Towns
Subtitle: An Interpretive History
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Published: July 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781566633482
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Urban communities; United States; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; Sociology - Urban; United States - State & Local - General; History / General; History; Cities and towns; City and town life
Description: "David Russo's history of American towns looks at their founding, development, and the varieties of life they embraced from earliest colonial times to the present. His chronicle is wide-ranging in its description, from coast to coast and border to border.

But while his aim is to discern patterns in the lives of American towns, he illustrates these shapes and structures with a great many specific examples of how towns came into existence, grew or declined, and gave way to larger urban areas, and finally have reappeared in idealized forms. It can be fairly said that towns now provide Americans with nostalgia for a past that most of them did not even experience."--BOOK JACKET.