BOOK REVIEW: Silent Cities - The Evolution of the ...
I was first introduced to the work of Kenneth T. Jackson when writing my undergraduate thesis, "America's Fight Against Communism: Promoting the Role of the Suburban Family in the 1950s." His book Crabgrass Frontier was a seminal work in the ... [... more]
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
 A classical look at the suburbs of the United States: Jackson writes one of the seminal studies in urban history relating to the suburbs. The end conclusion is that suburbs have not been beneficial to the United States. This tracks things from the start [... more]
$19.95
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how the good life in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history [... more]
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Crabgrass Frontier
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American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
Hard-hitting, funny, insightful, and thought-provoking: This is a brilliant book from one of the greatest environmental historians writing today. Combining muck-raking expose, insightful cultural and social history, and a wonderful sense of humor, it is [... more]
$24.95
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American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
Hard-hitting, funny, insightful, and thought-provoking: This is a brilliant book from one of the greatest environmental historians writing today. Combining muck-raking expose, insightful cultural and social history, and a wonderful sense of humor, it is [... more]
$16.95
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Silent Cities: the Evolution of the American Cemetery
Amazon.com Review: As telling about a society as skyscrapers and domestic architecture, yet rarely as discussed, are cemeteries, the architecture for the dead. Cemeteries not only reflect religious and cultural attitudes toward death, they also [... more]
$14.95
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Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern ...
Wonderful Book!!: OK, I have to issue a full disclosure here; the author is my brother. But that said Scott has written a great little book. We grew up in LA and had always heard stories about how the auto companies ruined public transportation in LA in [... more]
$31.95
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Crabgrass Frontier - the Suburbanization of the United ...
Author: Kenneth T. Jackson Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1985 [... more]
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
A classical look at the suburbs of the United States: Jackson writes one of the seminal studies in urban history relating to the suburbs. The end conclusion is that suburbs have not been beneficial to the United States. This tracks things from the start [... more]
$16.95
Amazon.com |
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
A classical look at the suburbs of the United States: Jackson writes one of the seminal studies in urban history relating to the suburbs. The end conclusion is that suburbs have not been beneficial to the United States. This tracks things from the start [... more]
$35.00
Amazon.com |
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
A classical look at the suburbs of the United States: Jackson writes one of the seminal studies in urban history relating to the suburbs. The end conclusion is that suburbs have not been beneficial to the United States. This tracks things from the start [... more]
$19.95
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