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The new urban history : quantitative explorations by American historians / edited by Leo F. Schnore ; with a foreword by Eric E. Lampard ; contributors, Martyn J. Bowden [and nine others].

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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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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Other Authors: Schnore, Leo Francis, 1927- (Editor)
Lampard, Eric E. (Author of introduction, etc.)
Bowden, Martyn J. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1975.
©1975
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > United States > History.
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

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