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An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change.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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hays, Samuel P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1989]
Series:Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions.
Subjects:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Social conditions.
Sozialgeschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > History > Congresses.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Social conditions > Congresses.
Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Histoire > Congrès.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Conditions sociales > Congrès.
Pittsburgh (P > ... > History > Congresses
Pittsburgh (P > ... > Social conditions > Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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