{"product_id":"the-modern-american-metropolis-isbn-9781444339000","title":"The Modern American Metropolis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces the history of American cities and suburbs through a collection of original source materials that historians have long used to make sense of the urban experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCarefully integrates and juxtaposes the primary sources that are at the heart of the collection\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRevisits and compares issues and themes over time\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals how the history of cities and suburbs is not limited to buildings, innovation, and politics, and not confined to municipal boundaries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores a wide variety of topics, including infrastructure development, electoral politics, consumer culture, battles over rights, environmental change, and the meaning of citizenship\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction Or, What Can a Wet Basement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTell Us about Metropolitan History? 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Cities and Hinterlands in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America 27\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 Transforming the Landscape and Its Functions 29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Chicago’s Daily Democrat Measures the Impact of the Transport Revolution, 1852 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cyrus McCormick Markets the Virginia Reaper to the Nation’s Farmers, 1850 and 1851 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Texans Appeal for the Removal of Native Peoples, 1858–1859 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine Discusses the Value of Slave Labor, 1855–1858 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 Snapshots of Urban Life on the Eve of the Civil War 50\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 An Irish Immigrant Writes Home about Life in the United States, 1850 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Frederick Law Olmsted Compares Northern and Southern Cities along the Atlantic Seaboard, 1856 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The New York Times Reports on a Millworker Strike in Lynn and Marblehead, 1859 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Reverend Albert Williams Describes San Francisco’s Fires 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II From Walking City to Industrial Metropolis, 1860–1920 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 Commerce and the Metropolis 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 Connects the Nation 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 William Dean Howells Describes Suburban Boston, 1872 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 August Spies Addresses Workers about Their Conditions, 1886 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 An Engineer Describes the Work Required to Make Seattle Competitive, 1908 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 New York City Retailers Organize to Protect a Fifth Avenue Shopping District, 1916 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 “Natives,” Migrants, and Immigrants 90\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Polish Immigrant Describes Life and Work in New York City, 1902 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Unions Call for Boycott of Chinese and Their Patrons, 1891–1892 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 La Crónica Reports on Challenges Facing the Texan Mexican Community, 1910–1911 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Good Housekeeping Counsels “The Commuter’s Wife,” 1909 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Black Southerners Write the Chicago Defender for Information about Employment, 1916–1918 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 Big City Life 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Urban Imagery, 1889–1913 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A Young Governess Discusses Her New Freedoms, 1903 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A Columnist Describes the Pleasures and Perils of Coney Island, 1915 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A Harper’s Weekly Columnist Worries about Garbage, 1891 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 Local Politics in the Gilded Age 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 George Washington Plunkitt Defends Patronage Politics in New York City, 1905 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Dallas City Commissioner Advocates Running a City Like a Business, 1909 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Jane Addams Describes the Goals of Hull House, 1893 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 An Economist Investigates Employers’ Response to Labor Unions 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III City and Suburb Ascendant, 1920–1945 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 Commerce, Consumption, and the Suburban Trend 157\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 An Investment Banker Insists that “Everyone Ought to Be Rich,” 1929 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Commerce and the Good Life 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Former Employees Describe Finding Work and Building Cars for Ford Motor Company 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Alfred Kazin Recalls New York City’s Ethnic Boundaries Before World War II 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 A Social Scientist Explains the “Suburban Trend,” 1925 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Suburban Speculation Creates Empty Subdivisions, 1925 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 Economic Collapse and Metropolitan Crisis 182\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The New Deal Rebuilds the Metropolis during the Great Depression 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Jane Yoder Describes Living through the Depression in a Central Illinois Mining Town 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Langston Hughes Remembers Rent Parties in Harlem 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Jose Yglesias Describes the 1930s in Tampa and New York City 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 The Metropolis at War 194\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The LA Chamber of Commerce Coordinates the Region’s War Production Efforts, 1942–1943 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Henry Cervantes Describes His Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to World War II Hero 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 White Transit Workers Walk Off the Job in Philadelphia, 1944 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Recounts Her Family’s Forced Relocation from Santa Monica, California 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Creating a Suburban Nation, 1945–1970s 215\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10 “The Affluent Society” 217\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Veterans Line Up for Homes in Long Island, 1949 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Sunset Magazine Markets a Suburban Way of Living, 1946 and 1958 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Ebony Discusses Homeownership and Domestic Life for a Steelworker’s Family in Gary, Indiana, 1957 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Catherine Marshall Defends a Woman’s Right to Work, 1954 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11 Public Policy and “Best Use” in American Neighborhoods 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Federal Housing Administration Defines Value in Single-Family Suburban Housing 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A US Senator Argues That Military Spending Is Producing Inequality, 1962 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Herbert Gans Critiques Federal Urban Renewal Programs, 1959 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 U.S. News and World Report Warns of Contaminated Suburban Water Supplies, 1963 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12 Metropolitan Contests over Citizenship, Rights, and Access 244\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Local Activists Organize a Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, 1954 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Suburban Homeowners Mobilize to Exclude “Incompatible” Development, 1950–1951 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Residents of a Memphis Neighborhood Block Construction of the Interstate, 1967 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Activists Define Black Power, 1967 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Gays and Lesbians in New York City Organize to Combat Discrimination, 1969 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Photograph Captures Divisions in Boston over Court-Ordered Busing, 1976 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V What Makes a City? The “Postindustrial” Metropolis 269\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13 Redefining “Urban” and “Suburban” 271\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 U.S. Steel Demolishes Its Plant in Youngstown, Ohio, 1983 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Hoboken Residents Debate the “Yuppie” Invasion, 1984–1987 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Jersey City Markets Itself to a New Demographic, 2003 and 2006 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A Professor Explains How Urban Redevelopment Has Impacted Los Angeles’s Minority Communities, 1987\/1988 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Planners Assess an Experiment in “New Urbanism” (Before the Great Recession), 1999 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 14 Growth and Its Challenges 292\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Global Economy and Global Politics Create New Challenges in the Twin Cities Region, 2012 292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 College Students in Merced Rent Empty McMansions, 2011 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Great Wall of Los Angeles Pictures the Region’s Development History, 1974 to the Present 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 City Building in Kansas: An Immigrant’s Perspective, 2007 300\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Developers in Los Angeles County Spark a Twenty-First-Century Debate over City Building and\u003cbr\u003eEnvironmental Protection, 2009 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid M. P. Freund\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eColored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and contributor to numerous educational, documentary, and public policy projects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the history of cities and suburbs in the United States through a collection of original source materials that explore the centrality of urban change to the American experience. Readers can explore key questions and debates in urban studies by considering how a wide range of people, including themselves, has related to the built environment and to sweeping transformations in metropolitan life over the past 150 years. The collection features more than 60 primary sources, ranging from correspondence and photographs to marketing tools and government documents. An introductory essay highlights topics that link together the sources, including the physical transformation of American places, consumer culture, electoral politics, environmental change, battles over rights and opportunity, the role of technology, and contests over the meaning of citizenship. Collectively, these materials reveal how the history of cities and suburbs is not limited to buildings, innovation, and politics - and not confined to municipal boundaries. \u003ci\u003eThe Modern American Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e enables readers to view the whole of modern U.S. history as an essentially 'metropolitan' history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Freund, one of the leading historians of race, economics, and the modern American metropolis, has assembled an excellent collection of primary sources. Historians, city and regional planners, and urbanists of all varieties will find great material here for their classes or as a starting point for their own research.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Modern American Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e is a breath of fresh air: comprehensive, honest, and imminently readable. David Freund has crafted an essential intellectual companion for any student of American cities.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRobert O. Self, Brown University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This rich and diverse compendium of documents demonstrates that people make cities as much as cities make people. David Freund has gifted us with an essential tool for teaching Urban Studies and Modern American History.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRobin D. G. 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