United States History North American Urban Comprehensive Examination Bibliography

Classic Works

Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860. New York: Scribner, 1939.

Boyer, Paul. Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776. New York: Knopf, 1955.

Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness - the First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742. New York: Knopf, 1960.

Burnham, Daniel and Bennett, Edward. Plan of Chicago. Chicago: Chicago Commercial Club, 1909; reprint Princeton Architectural Press, 1993, and available at: http://books.google.com/books?q=Plan+of+Chicago

Davis, Alan F. Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880. Revised Edition. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955.

Hirsch, Arnold. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Knopf, 1955.

Lockridge, Kenneth A. A New England Town: The First One Hundred Years. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage, 1961. 0

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1961.

Osterhammel, Jurgen. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, Patrick Camiller translator. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2014.

Rabinowitz, Howard N. Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Rodgers, Daniel T. “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History (1982).

Schnore, Leo, ed. The New Urban History: Quantitative Explorations by American Historians. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Thernstrom, Stephan. Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth-Century City. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Thernstrom, Stephan, and Richard Sennett, eds. Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.

Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.

Wade, Richard. Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Wade, Richard. The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790-1830. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard University Press, 1959.

Warner, Sam Bass. The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Growth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.

Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Warner, Sam Bass. The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American. City New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Pre-1900

Abbott, Carl. The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.

Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points. New York: Free Press, 2001.

Baldwin, Peter C. Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Barth, Gunther. City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Bender, Thomas. New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time. New York: Knopf, 1987.

Blumin, Stuart M. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Bluestone, Daniel. Constructing Chicago. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Buder, Stanley. Pullman: An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967.

Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Bushman, Richard L. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Butler, Jon. God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Cohen, Patricia Cline, Timothy J. Gilfoyle and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Conzen, Kathleen Neils. Immigrant Milwaukee 1836-1860 - Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Dawley, Alan. Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Sarah, Deutsch. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Doerflinger, Thomas. A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Einhorn, Robin. Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Fitzgerald, Maureen. Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Flanagan, Maureen. Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Gandy, Matthew. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.

Goldfield, David. Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers -Southern City and Region, 1607-1980. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Hamer, David. New Towns in the New World, Images of Nineteenth Century Urban Frontiers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626- 1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981.

Hershberg, Theodore, ed. Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family, and Group Experience in the 19th Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Hoffman, Alexander von. Local Attachments - The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Johnson, Walter. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2020.

Katz, Michael. The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid- Nineteenth-Century City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975,

Keating, Ann Durkin. Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Keller, Lisa. Triumph of Order: Democracy & Public Space in New York and London. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Lane, Roger. William Dorsey’s Philadelphia and Ours, On the Past and Future of the Black City in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Lane, Roger. Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Lepore, Jill. New York Burning. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2005.

Melosi, Martin. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in American from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Melvin, Patricia Mooney. The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization 1880-1920. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Miles, Tiya. The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. New York: New Press, 2017.

Nash, Gary. The Urban Crucible: American Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Pauketat, Timothy R. Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi. New York: Penguin Library of American Indian History, 2009.

Platt, Harold L. The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880- 1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Roberts, Kyle B. Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783- 1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Rozenzweig Roy and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and the People, A History of Central Park. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Schneirov, Richard. Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Schuyler, David. The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1986.

Smith, Carl. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief in the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Spann, Edward. The New Metropolis - New York City, 1840-1857. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

Wallace, Anthony F.C. Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1978.

Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. New York: Pantheon, 1981.

Young, James Sterling. The Washington Community, 1800-1828. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.

Zunz, Olivier. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Post-1900

Avila, Eric. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight – Fear and Fantasy in Los Angeles. American Crossroads. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Barber, Llana. Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Bodnar, John, Roger Simon, Michael P. Weber. Lives of Their Own - Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburg, 1900-1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Bridges, Amy. Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Brown-Nagin, Tomiko. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Bruegmann, Robert. Sprawl: A Compact History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Butler, Jon. God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York, Knopf, 1974.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Cohen, Adam and Taylor, Elizabeth. American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley – His Battle for Chicago and the Nation. Boston: Little Brown, 2000.

Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Cohen, Lizabeth. Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Connolly, N.D.B. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Making of Jim Crow South Florida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. London: Verso, 1990.

Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. 1998.

Dochuk, Darren, and Michelle Nickerson, eds. Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.

Elkind, Sarah S. Bay Cities and Water Politics - The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Erickson, Ansley T. Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Escobar, Edward J. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945. 1999.

Gerstle, Gary. “Race and the Myth of the Liberal Consensus,” Journal of American History (1995).

Findlay, John. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Fishman, Robert. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic, 1977.

Fogelson, Robert M. Downtown, Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Freund, David M. P. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Garb, Margaret. City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the Chicago History Museum, 2006.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J., ed. Special Issue on Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis, Journal of Urban History, vol. 29, no. 3 (March 2003), 233-309.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J., ed. Special Issue on Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux, Journal of Urban History, vol. 46, no. 3 (May 2020), 471-515.

Gillette, Howard. Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Guglielmo, Thomas. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Gutman, Marta. A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscape of Oakland, 1850-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Hodos, Jerome I. Second Cities: Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia. Temple University Press, 2011.

Hunt, D. Bradford. Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Johnson, Walter. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2020.

Katznelson, Ira. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013.

Kruse, Kevin and Thomas Sugrue, eds. The New Suburban History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Kwak, Nancy. A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Leach, William R. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power and the Rise of New American Culture. New York: Random House, 1993.

Levenstein, Lisa. Movement without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia. University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Lotchin, Roger W. The Martial Metropolis: U.S. Cities in War and Peace. New York: Praeger, 1984.

McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: Origins of the New American Right. 2001.

McGreevy, John. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Melosi, Martin. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in American from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Nicolaides, Becky. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Nickerson, Michelle. Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

O’Connor, Alice. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Knowledge, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Okrent, Daniel. Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center. New York: Viking, 2003.

Pagan, Eduardo Obregon. Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime Los Angeles. 2003.

Perales, Monica. Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Phillips-Fein, Kimberly. Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2017.

Philpott, Thomas Lee. The Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle-Class Reform, Chicago, 1880-1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Platt, Harold L. The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880- 1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Radford, Gail. Modern Housing for America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Revell, Keith. Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in the Progressive Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Rome, Adam. Bulldozing the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Rubin, Elihu. Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Sandercock, Leonie. Cosmopolis II- Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Sandoval-Strausz, Andrew K. Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City. New York: Basic Books, 2019.

Schneider, Eric C. Smack: Heroin and the American City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Scott, Allen J. and Soja, Edward W. eds., The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Self, Robert O. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy. Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Sies, Mary and Silver, Christopher. eds., Planning the Twentieth Century American City. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Steptoe, Tyina L. Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016.

Sorkin, Michael. ed., Variations on a Theme Park: Scenes from the New American City. New York: Pantheon, 1990.

Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Granite Garden Urban Nature and Human Design. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

Sugrue, Thomas J. Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race. 2010.

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008.

Sussman, Carl, ed. Planning the Fourth Migration: The Neglected Vision of the Regional Planning Association of America. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1976.

Tarr, Joel. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. Akron: University of Akron Press, 1966.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Taylor, William R., ed., Inventing Times Square. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Thompson, Heather Ann. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. New York: Pantheon, 2016.

Thompson, Heather Ann. “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History.” The Journal of American History 97, Dec. 2010.

Todd-Breland. A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Vargas, Zaragosa. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933. 1993. von Hoffman, Alexander, et al. “Forum: Urban Renewal.” Journal of Urban History, vol. 40, no. 4 (July 2014): 631–647.

Wiese, Andrew. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth. Century Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Willis, Carol. Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995.

Wilson, James Q., ed. Urban Renewal: The Record and the Controversy. Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1966.

Winling, LaDale. Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

Zipp, Samuel. Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Zukin, Sharon. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disneyland. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1991.

Zunz, Olivier. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.