A reprint of the Oxford U. Press edition of 1975 with a new introduction (20 p.). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Instant Cities: Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver (Urban Life in America)

History

Barth, Gunther

Americas

Oxford University Press

Depicts the development of such aspects of urban culture as apartment buildings, metropolitan newspapers, department stores, baseball parks, and vaudeville

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

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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.

The tension between nature and culture, which accompanies the rise of any large society, has become a subject of great concern in our time. In this compelling study, Gunther Barth, acclaimed author of City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, identifies fleeting moments of concord between nature and culture in the course of American history. During the search for the Wilderness Passage, the progress of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the building of park cemeteries and big city parks, Americans realized that nature was not merely a force to be reckoned with, not merely a resource to be exploited, but also an integral component of their lives. Through the engineering of nature and culture in the urban environment, the energetic attempts to conserve large-scale nature in the United States emerged as an offspring of the big city. Heightening our understanding of the historical complexity of the relationship between nature and culture, and suggesting that harmony between the two is a mark of civilization, this original study will be an invaluable guide to anyone concerned with the quality of life in America, past and future.

Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History

The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Selections from the Journals, Arranged by Topic (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Travel

Bedford/St.Martin's

The American Promise 2e Volume 1 and The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Selections from the Journals, Arranged by Topic

A history, very well written and descriptive of the history of the Chinese in the United States  for a thirty year period.

Bitter Strength: A History of the Chinese in the United States, 1850-1870

Asia

Harvard University Press

California (Destination Guide)

Windsor Books Intl

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