Add to ORKGThe Roaring Metropolis offers a major reinterpretation of U.S. politics between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression. Primarily through the archival study of social politics in three starkly different cities—Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia—it recasts the decade as an era of aggressive governmental expansion, hardly the moment of retrenchment and reaction portrayed in most scholarship, and a time when government growth went far beyond Prohibition and the economic experiments that Ellis Hawley and others have described. Moreover, it shows decisively that, more than any other political force and to a greater degree than ever before, in the 1920s United States it was businessmen who led the charge for publicly sponso...
Prior to the New Deal almost all public social welfare spending, or what contemporaries called “reli...
This is a study of urbanization and suburbanization in twentieth century America, using Milwaukee as...
The United States boasts a rich and varied history of political dissent. Over the past three centuri...
The 1920s has had a reputation as being a fallow period in the history of American urban politics, h...
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of c...
Daniel Amsterdam’s Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State challenges t...
in 1899 adna weber began his masterpiece on urban growth in the nineteenth century by writing, “The ...
My topic of choice concerns the evolution of public space in American cities and towns as occasioned...
Examining urban-rural history around the turn of the twentieth century is integral to understanding ...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Chicago, like many American cities, was experiencing a crisis ...
This thesis explores and compares the ways in which citizenship during the interwar period was formu...
This thesis explores and compares the ways in which citizenship during the interwar period was formu...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index.This is a book about people with diffe...
In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz an...
This study of one rural county in western Pennsylvania during the Great Depression highlights people...
Prior to the New Deal almost all public social welfare spending, or what contemporaries called “reli...
This is a study of urbanization and suburbanization in twentieth century America, using Milwaukee as...
The United States boasts a rich and varied history of political dissent. Over the past three centuri...
The 1920s has had a reputation as being a fallow period in the history of American urban politics, h...
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of c...
Daniel Amsterdam’s Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State challenges t...
in 1899 adna weber began his masterpiece on urban growth in the nineteenth century by writing, “The ...
My topic of choice concerns the evolution of public space in American cities and towns as occasioned...
Examining urban-rural history around the turn of the twentieth century is integral to understanding ...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Chicago, like many American cities, was experiencing a crisis ...
This thesis explores and compares the ways in which citizenship during the interwar period was formu...
This thesis explores and compares the ways in which citizenship during the interwar period was formu...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index.This is a book about people with diffe...
In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz an...
This study of one rural county in western Pennsylvania during the Great Depression highlights people...
Prior to the New Deal almost all public social welfare spending, or what contemporaries called “reli...
This is a study of urbanization and suburbanization in twentieth century America, using Milwaukee as...
The United States boasts a rich and varied history of political dissent. Over the past three centuri...