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The Urbanization of Modern America;: A Brief History (The Harbrace History of the United States)
The Urbanization of Modern America A Brief History - The Harbrace History of the United States Author:Zane L. Miller From the preface - "The first concern of the urban historian is to discover how cities have grown. One must concentrate on describing and analyzing the changing shape and physical size of cities, their population and economic composition, the location of segments of the population and of commercial and industrial facilities, the n... more »ature of urban politics and government, and the interrelationships among all these factors. The second task is to assess the role of cities in the overall history of the nation. This focuses on the way in which cities influence broad political developments, such as the Revolution or the New Deal, or how they affect economic events, such as the Industrial Revolution or the coming of twentieth-century corporate society.« less