The New Urban History : : Quantitative Explorations by American Historians /

The New Urban History : : Quantitative Explorations by American Historians / / Leo Francis Schnore.

As part of the new consciousness concerning the history of the American city, younger historians, economists, and geographers working with quantitative methods on urban-historical problems were brought together at a conference sponsored by the History Advisory Committee of the Mathematical Social Sc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
VerfasserIn:
Schnore, Leo Francis,
MitwirkendeR:
Bowden, Martyn J.,
Dale Goldin, Claudia,
Fogel, Robert William,
Higgs, Robert,
Jackson, Kenneth T .,
Lampard, Eric E.,
Miller, Zane L.,
Neils Conzen, Kathleen,
Pred, Allan R.,
Schnore, Leo F.,
Singleton, Gregory H.,
Swanson, Joseph A.,
Williamson, Jeffrey G.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1975
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Quantitative Studies in History ; 1615
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Physical Description:1 online resource (298 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Series Preface
  • Contents
  • Further Reflections on the "New" Urban History: A Prefatory Note
  • Two Cheers for Quantitative History: An Agnostic Foreword
  • PART ONE. THE GROWTH AND FUNCTION OF CITIES
  • 1. Large-City Interdependence and the Pre-Electronic Diffusion of Innovations in the United States
  • 2. Growth of the Central Districts in Large Cities
  • 3. Urban Deconcentration in the Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Inquiry
  • PART TWO. ACCOMMODATIONS TO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
  • 4. Patterns of Residence in Early Milwaukee
  • 5. Urban Blacks in the South, 1865-1920: The Richmond, Savannah, New Orleans, Louisville and Birmingham Experience
  • 6. Fundamentalism and Urbanization: A Quantitative Critique of Impressionistic Interpretations
  • PART THREE. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF URBAN-HISTORICAL PHENOMENA
  • 7. Urbanization and Slavery: The Issue of Compatibility
  • 8. Urbanization and Inventiveness in the United States, 1870-1920
  • 9. Firm Location and Optimal City Size in American History
  • The Contributors
  • Index of Names and Places
  • Backmatter

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