The Making of Urban America Book

Preface Part I: The Preindustrial City Chapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700–1820
Chapter 2: Slavery, Emancipation, and Class Formation in Colonial and Early National New York City Chapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern Cities Part II: The Industrial City Chapter 4: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889–1913
Chapter 5: The “Poor Man’s Friend”: Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1879–1920
Chapter 6: Leisure and Labor Chapter 7: Chicago’s 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban Violence Chapter 8: Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers: From Industrial Infrastructure to Environmental Asset Part III: The Twentieth-Century Metropolis Chapter 9: The New Deal in Dallas Chapter 10: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1840–1964
Chapter 11: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary Chapter 12: Planned Destruction: The Interstates and Central City Housing Chapter 13: Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New Orleans Chapter 14: Latino Immigrants and the Politics of Space in Atlanta Chapter 15: What Is an American City?
Part IV: The Historiography of Urban America Chapter 16: New Perspectives on American Urban History