Rise of Urban America
The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer Prize historian.
Constance McLaughlin Green traces the forces - economic, political, social - that led to today''s urban civilization, beginning with the growth of colonial seaports and local government, the rise of new cities that competed f...
The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer Prize historian.
Constance McLaughlin Green traces the forces - economic, political, social - that led to today''s urban civilization, beginning with the growth of colonial seaports and local government, the rise of new cities that competed f...
