Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840-1860
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 12/01/1980
Description:
In the major new work of urban history, Allan Pred interprets the process by which major cities grew and the entire city-system of the United States developed during the antebellum decades 1840-1860. This period was marked by the most rapid urbanization the nation has ever seen. It was a time not only of industrialization but also of massive reorganization of the country's resources.
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