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City at the point : essays on the social history of Pittsburgh /
An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes the literature and assesses how that knowledge relates to our broader understanding of the processes of urbanizatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[1989]
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| Colección: | Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections. University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- immigrants and industry : Peopling the "Iron City" / Nora Faires
- Women and culture in Pittsburgh, 1850-1920 / Maurine Weiner Greenwald
- Double burden : The black experience in Pittsburgh / Laurence Glasco
- Working-class formation, development and consciousness in Pittsburgh, 1790-1960 / Richard oestreicher
- Government, parties and voters in Pittsburgh / Paul Kleppner
- Metropolis and region : A framework for enquiry into Western Pennsylvania / Edward K. Muller
- Infrastructure and city-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Joel A. Tarr
- Steel City aristocrats / John N. Ingham
- Pittsburgh and the uses of social welfare history / Roy Lubove
- The soul of the city : A social history of religion in Pittsburgh / Linda K. Pritchard
- Community-building and occupational mobility in Pittsburgh, 1880-1960 / Michael P. Weber
- Pittsburgh : How typical? / Samuel P. Hays
- Pittsburgh and Europe's metallurgical cities : A comparison / Herrick Chapman.