Required Readings

Gunther Barth, City People (Oxford University Press, 1982). ISBN: 13:9780 1950 3194 2
Jo Ann E. Argersinger, The Triangle Fire (Bedford/ St. Martins, 2009). ISBN: 0-312-46452-5
Luiz Alvarez, The Power of the Zoot (University of California Press, 2009). ISBN: 9 780 520261 549
Jon Teaford, The Metropolitan Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2006). ISBN: 978-0-231-13373-9
Various articles and book chapters (handouts or online)

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"This course is designed to help the student better understand the role of urbanization in U. S. history. Following a loose chronology from this nation’s founding to the present, the class will trace the political, economic, social, cultural, and transnational development of America’s cities. We will consider the processes of urbanization and suburbanization from numerous perspectives, including analyses of the built environment, urban planning, law, migration and immigration, technological innovation, politics, race and ethnicity, gender, regionalism, reform, sprawl, gentrification, and preservation, among other issues. Also, students will be introduced to some of the major historiographical trends that have influenced urban historians." (from the course syllabus)
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