Industrialization and Urbanization : : Studies in Interdisciplinary History / / ed. by Theodore K. Rabb, Robert I. Rotberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Africa, Thomas W.,; Amsden, Jon,; Blumin, Stuart M.,; Brier, Stephen,; Grijfen, Clyde,; Haines, Michael R.,; Knights, Peter R.,; Mendels, Franklin F.,; Rodgers, Daniel T,; Rozman, Gilbert,; Sewell, William H.,; Spodek, Howard,; Thernstrom, Stephan,; Wheatley, Paul,; Wrigley, E. A.,; Yans McLaughlin, Virginia,
• HerausgeberIn: Rabb, Theodore K.,; Rotberg, Robert I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Interdisciplinary History ; 560
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional approaches to the development of cities.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Urban Violence in Imperial Rome -- The Process of Modernization and the Industrial Revolution in England -- Social Mobility and Phases of Industrialization -- Social Mobility in a Nineteenth-Century European City: Some Findings and Implications -- Fertility, Nuptiality, and Occupation: A Study of Coal Mining Populations and Regions in England and Wales in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Coal Miners on Strike: The Transformation of Strike Demands and the Formation of a National Union -- Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America -- Patterns of Work and Family Organization: Buffalo's Italians -- Tradition, Modernity, and the American Industrial Worker: Reflections and Critique -- In Pursuit of the American City -- Public Opinion in Urban History -- Urban Networks and Historical Stages -- From "Parasitic" to "Generative": The Transformation of Post-Colonial Cities in India -- The City Overseas -- The Contributors