Shantytown, USA : : Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor / / Lisa Goff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Goff, Lisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 21 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Walden, a Shanty or a House? --; 2. Shanties on the Western Frontier --; 3. Shantytowns on the Urban Frontier --; 4. A Working-Poor Ideology of Dwelling --; 5. Squatter Sovereignty: Shantytown’s Broadway Debut --; 6. Transformed by Art and Journalism --; 7. African-American Shantytowns 1860–1940 --; 8. Depression-Era Shantytowns --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674968967; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674968967
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lisa Goff.

Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street.