City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.

• | By (Author): Gunther Barth
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 1983
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0195031946
• | ISBN-13: 9780195031942