The new urban history : quantitative explorations by American historians /
As part of the new consciousness concerning the history of the American city, younger historians, economists, and geographers working with quantitative methods on urban-historical problems were brought together at a conference sponsored by the History Advisory Committee of the Mathematical Social Sc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1975. ©1975 |
| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Series Preface / Fogel, Robert William
- Contents
- Further Reflections on the "New" Urban History: A Prefatory Note / Schnore, Leo F.
- Two Cheers for Quantitative History: An Agnostic Foreword / Lampard, Eric E.
- PART ONE. THE GROWTH AND FUNCTION OF CITIES
- 1. Large-City Interdependence and the Pre-Electronic Diffusion of Innovations in the United States / Pred, Allan R.
- 2. Growth of the Central Districts in Large Cities / Bowden, Martyn J.
- 3. Urban Deconcentration in the Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Inquiry / Jackson, Kenneth T .
- PART TWO. ACCOMMODATIONS TO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
- 4. Patterns of Residence in Early Milwaukee / Neils Conzen, Kathleen
- 5. Urban Blacks in the South, 1865-1920: The Richmond, Savannah, New Orleans, Louisville and Birmingham Experience / Miller, Zane L.
- 6. Fundamentalism and Urbanization: A Quantitative Critique of Impressionistic Interpretations / Singleton, Gregory H.
- PART THREE. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF URBAN-HISTORICAL PHENOMENA
- 7. Urbanization and Slavery: The Issue of Compatibility / Dale Goldin, Claudia
- 8. Urbanization and Inventiveness in the United States, 1870-1920 / Higgs, Robert
- 9. Firm Location and Optimal City Size in American History / Swanson, Joseph A. / Williamson, Jeffrey G.
- The Contributors
- Index of Names and Places
- Backmatter