Shantytown, USA : : Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor / / 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 21 halftones |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |