Toward an Urban Vision - Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America

'Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians' "An important book...Provocative, thoughtful, and worth reading."--'Journal of American History'

About the author

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Bender, Thomas (Professor Emeritus Bender
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.1982
• EAN: 9780801829253
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-2925-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories