Community and Social Change in America

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Did urbanization kill communities in the 19th century, or even earlier? Many historians proclaim that it did, but author Bender says otherwise. Here he argues that community survived the trials of industrialization and urbanization and remains a fundamental element of American society.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Bender, Thomas (Professor Emeritus Bender
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2000
• EAN: 9780801829246
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-2924-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous