Americans Against the City

Americans Against the City
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9780199973668
ISBN-13 : 0199973660
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Book Synopsis Americans Against the City by : Steven Conn

Download or read book Americans Against the City written by Steven Conn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. In this provocative and sweeping book, historian Steven Conn explores the "anti-urban impulse" across the 20th century and examines how those ideas have shaped the places Americans have lived and worked, and how they have shaped the anti-government politics of the New Right.


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