America's Urban History

Introduction: Discovering and Defining the "City upon a Hill" Chapter One: Pre-Colonial and Seventeenth-Century Native American Settlements Chapter Two: Transplanting Cities and Urban Networks: Spain, France, and Holland in Colonial America, 1565-1821 Chapter Three: City, Plantation, Metropolis: The Anglo-American Urban Experience, 1587-1800 Chapter Four: An Urban Frontier: The American West, 1800-1869 Chapter Five: The Urban Cauldron: City Growth and the Rise of Social Reform, 1850-1920 Chapter Six: The Urban Nation: Middletown and Metropolis Chapter Seven: New Deal, New Cities: The 1930s Chapter Eight: War and Postwar Metropolis: Cites, Suburbs, and Exurbs, 1940s-1950s Chapter Nine: The Frontier of Imagination: American Cities in the 1960s Chapter Ten: Attempting Revival and Renaissance: The 1970s-1980s Chapter Eleven: The Modern City: Fear, Technology, and Inequality, 1990-Present Bibliography