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Downtown America: a history of the place and the people who made it

Alison Isenberg c2004 © University of Chicago Press
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  • 9780226385075 (hardcover)
  • 9780226385082 (paper)
  • 9780226385099 (ebook)
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • INTRODUCTION Beyond Decline: Assessing the Values of Urban Commercial Life in the Twentieth Century (page 1)
  • CHAPTER 1 City Beautiful or Beautiful Mess? The Gendered Origins of a Civic Ideal (page 13)
  • CHAPTER 2 Fixing an Image of Commercial Dignity: Postcards and the Business of Planning Main Street (page 42)
  • CHAPTER 3 "Mrs. Consumer," "Mrs. Brown America," and "Mr. Chain Store Man": Economic Woman and the Laws of Retail (page 78)
  • CHAPTER 4 Main Street's Interior Frontier: Innovation amid Depression and War (page 124)
  • CHAPTER 5 "The Demolition of Our Outworn Past": Suburban Shoppers and the Logic of Urban Renewal (page 166)
  • CHAPTER 6 The Hollow Prize? Black Buyers, Racial Violence, and the Riot Renaissance (page 203)
  • CHAPTER 7 Animated by Nostalgia: Preservation and Vacancy since the 1960s (page 255)
  • CONCLUSION "The Lights Are Much Brighter There" (page 312)
  • List of Archival Collections (page 319)
  • Notes (page 321)
  • Index (page 421)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ES 9.1 (Mar. 2008): 228-231 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/enterprise_and_society/v009/9.1.gogan.html
JSocH 39.2 (Winter 2005): 566-568 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v039/39.2winling.html
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