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Author: Steven Conn (Professor and Director, Public History, Ohio State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780190636340
ISBN 10: 0190636343
Pages: 394
Publication Date: 08 December 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Although the literature on America's attitudes toward its cities is large, Steven Conn's new book, Americans against the City, sheds new light on the topic and demonstrates that ideas can have a powerful effect on landscape and politics... Conn connects intellectual history to the history of politics and the physical environment to show how concerns about urban density and public life have permeated not only American thought but also all aspects of American life. By pursuing his theme into the twenty-first century, he also demonstrates its persistence and continued importance. Journal of American History This clearly written, analytically perceptive work introduces us to the people and the politics that represented the decentralizing, anti-urban spirit of the last century. -Journal of Appalachian Studies
Americans Against the City is about the past, but brings into relief the surprising character of the present. --LA Review of Books Although the literature on America's attitudes toward its cities is large, Steven Conn's new book, Americans against the City, sheds new light on the topic and demonstrates that ideas can have a powerful effect on landscape and politics...Conn connects intellectual history to the history of politics and the physical environment to show how concerns about urban density and public life have permeated not only American thought but also all aspects of American life. By pursuing his theme into the twenty-first century, he also demonstrates its persistence and continued importance. --Journal of American History This clearly written, analytically perceptive work introduces us to the people and the politics that represented the decentralizing, anti-urban spirit of the last century. --Journal of Appalachian Studies
"""Americans Against the City is about the past, but brings into relief the surprising character of the present.""--LA Review of Books ""Although the literature on America's attitudes toward its cities is large, Steven Conn's new book, Americans against the City, sheds new light on the topic and demonstrates that ideas can have a powerful effect on landscape and politics...Conn connects intellectual history to the history of politics and the physical environment to show how concerns about urban density and public life have permeated not only American thought but also all aspects of American life. By pursuing his theme into the twenty-first century, he also demonstrates its persistence and continued importance.""--Journal of American History ""This clearly written, analytically perceptive work introduces us to the people and the politics that represented the decentralizing, anti-urban spirit of the last century.""--Journal of Appalachian Studies"
Although the literature on America's attitudes toward its cities is large, Steven Conn's new book, Americans against the City, sheds new light on the topic and demonstrates that ideas can have a powerful effect on landscape and politics.... Conn connects intellectual history to the history of politics and the physical environment to show how concerns about urban density and public life have permeated not only American thought but also all aspects of American life. By pursuing his theme into the twenty-first century, he also demonstrates its persistence and continued importance. --Journal of American History This clearly written, analytically perceptive work introduces us to the people and the politics that represented the decentralizing, anti-urban spirit of the last century. -Journal of Appalachian Studies
Author Information
Steven Conn is Professor and Director, Public History, Ohio State University. He is the author of, To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government; Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living in the Presence of the Past, among others; he is the co-editor of Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape.
