Shantytown, USA
forgotten landscapes of the working poor
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Word Count
76,250 words, Guess
Page Count
305 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveshantytownusafor0000goff
- ISBN-100674660455
- ISBN-139780674660458
- Library of Congress Control Number2015034398
- OCLC Control Number921240444
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780674660458
- Open LibraryOL27205101M
Classifications
- DDC307.3/30973
- LCCHD7287.96.U6 G64 2016
- LCCHD7287.96.U6G64 2016
Description
"Mention "shantytowns" today and the universal assumption is that you'll be talking about exploding slums in a developing nation in Africa, South Asia, or South America. This book adds the United States to the international discourse on shantytowns, tracing their appearance on both the western and urban frontiers of the young nation starting in the 1820s, and tracking them through the urbanization and industrialization that convulsed the country in the decades leading up to and following the Civil War. Drawing on a wealth of unexamined texts, images, popular music, and films, filtered through the lens of scholarship on everyday landscapes, Shantytown USA restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in the nation's imagination, and on its landscape."--Provided by publisher.
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Other Editions
- Shantytown, USA: forgotten landscapes of the working poor
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