City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America by Gunther Barth

City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

Gunther Barth

320 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.

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