The city as suburb
Subtitle: a history of Northeast Baltimore since 1660
By: Eric L. Holcomb.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: Center books on American places
Publisher: Center for American Places at Columbia College; Distributed by the University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago; [Charlottesville]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781930066724; 9781930066731
Subjects: Suburbs -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History; Suburban life -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History; Northeast Baltimore (Baltimore, Md.) -- History; Northeast Baltimore (Baltimore, Md.) -- Social conditions; Baltimore (Md.) -- History; Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions
Description: "Northeast Baltimore has undergone a transformation from a rural area into a "city suburb," an experience shared by many similar U.S. metropolitan areas. Eric L. Holcomb's updated edition traces this prototypical process from the region's origins as a hunting ground of the Susquehannocks, through its earliest settlement by Europeans in the eighteenth century and its idealization as a picturesque landscape during the nineteenth century, to its rise as a suburb in the twentieth century." "Holcomb's obvious passion for the area, combined with his thorough research in geographic indicators such as land ownership patterns, provide a broad empirical foundation for this richly illustrated history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.b 247-257) and index.