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Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e
Chapter 18: The Age of the City
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Highlights The Urbanization of America The Urban Landscape
Strains of Urban Life The Rise of Mass Consumption Leisure in the Consumer Society High Culture in the Age of the City © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
The Lure of the City Rapid Urban Growth Migrations Geographic Mobility African American Communities © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
The United States in 1900 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
Population Growth, © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
Immigration’s Contribution to Population Growth, © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
Sources of Immigration from Europe, © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
The Ethnic City The Diverse American City Benefits of Ethnic Communities © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
Assimilation Americanization Changing Gender Roles Scenes from a New York City “ghetto” fish market (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
Ethnic and Class Segregation in Milwaukee, © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
Exclusion Nativism Immigration Restriction League Advantages of Cheap Labor © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
Immigration under attack, 1903 (New York Public Library; Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urbanization of America
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urban Landscape The Creation of Public Space
Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux “City Beautiful” Movement The Back Bay Frog Pond at Boston Common, 1899 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Mall in Central Park, 1902 (Library of Congress)
The Urban Landscape The Mall in Central Park, (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urban Landscape Housing the Well-to-Do
Growth of Suburbs Housing Workers and the Poor Tenements Jacob Riis © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Streetcar Suburbs in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
The Urban Landscape Streetcar Suburbs in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urban Landscape Urban Transportation Transportation Problems
Mass Transit Elevated railway in Chicago (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Urban Landscape The “Skyscraper”
Empire building in New York (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Strains of Urban Life Fire and Disease Environmental Degradation
Development of Professional Fire Departments Environmental Degradation Air Pollution Public Health Service © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Strains of Urban Life Urban Poverty Crime and Violence Salvation Army
High Crime Rates © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Strains of Urban Life The Machine and the Boss Boss Rule
Graft and Corruption Reasons for Boss Rule © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Rise of Mass Consumption
Middle-Class Culture Patterns of Income and Consumption Rising Income New Merchandising Techniques © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Rise of Mass Consumption
Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses Chain Stores Social Consequences of Mail-Order Catalogs © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Rise of Mass Consumption
Department Stores Impact of the Department Store Women as Consumers National Consumers League © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Leisure in the Consumer Society
Redefining Leisure New Conceptions of Leisure Simon Patten Public Leisure Amusement park in Ohio (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Leisure in the Consumer Society
Spectator Sports Major League Baseball Growth of College Football Gambling and Sports Woman with a royal flush (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Leisure in the Consumer Society
Music and Theater Ethnic Theater Vaudeville Hammerstein Theater (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Leisure in the Consumer Society
The Movies The Birth of a Nation Working-Class Leisure Importance of the Saloon © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Leisure in the Consumer Society
The Fourth of July Importance of the Fourth of July Mass Communications Emergence of Newspaper Chains Fourth of July salute, 1893 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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High Culture in the Age of the City
The Literature of Urban America Social Realism Art in the Age of the City Ashcan School © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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High Culture in the Age of the City
The Impact of Darwinism “Natural Selection” “Pragmatism” Growth of Anthropology Charles Darwin (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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High Culture in the Age of the City
Toward Universal Schooling Spread of Public Education “Land-Grant” Institutions Education for Women Women’s Colleges University of Minnesota, c (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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