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Plague of strangers: Social groups and the origins of city services in Cincinnati
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Alan Marcus's Plague of Strangers examines the origins and development of municipal services in mid-nineteenth century cities from a political, social, and public health point of view. Using Cincinnati as an example of a…
Reforming urban labor : Routes to the city, roots in the country
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Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the…
The city in the Ottoman Empire : Migration and the making of urban modernity
Abstract from the publisher : The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city…
The growth of cities in the nineteenth century : A study in statistics
Extract from the 'Biographical Note' by Barclay G. Jones :
Lewis Mumford is certainly correct in describing The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century as a "classic pioneer work". It is the first really sound, comprehensive, and…
The imagination of class: Masculinity and the Victorian urban poor
Extract from the Introduction: The poor were always with the English. Poverty had been of broad social concern since the Elizabethan period at least: the topic of ongoing debate, periodic legislation, sporadic philanthropy. But the London poor of…
The mysteries of the great city: The politics of urban design, 1877-1937
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The Mysteries of the Great City examines the physical, cultural, and political transformations of the American city between the Gilded Age and the New Deal. Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, John Fairfield…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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Contents:
1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865
2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890
3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer
4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894
5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…
The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century
From the introduction : During the nineteenth century, a concerted effort was made to transform the Ottoman capital of Istanbul into a Western-style capital, paralleling the general struggle to salvage the Ottoman Empire by reforming its…
The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on…
Under metropolis: Exploring the cultural history of Buenos Aires underground railways (c. 1886-1945)
Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second Industrial Revolution
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At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an…
Urban revolt: Ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement
Extract from the Preface:
I became interested in nineteenth-century Chicago labor history in an indirect way. I had begun a study of political mobilization in Chicago community organizing and felt that I could not understand the political process…
Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…