City People

The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

• Author(s): Gunther Barth,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 320
• ISBN_10: 0190281243
  ISBN_13: 9780190281243
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / 19th Century , Social Science / Sociology / Urban ,

Description:... This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.