Once known as a great commercial port and pork-packing center, Cincinnati developed a diverse industrial economy in a bid to remain the West's Queen City. It is a community familiar with change as new transportation systems evolved, commercial activity shifted, and poor race relations periodically erupted in unrest. For over 200 years, however, enterprising citizens created a vibrant, if at times volatile, urban culture that frequently harkens back to its remarkable past in an effort to shape its future.
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David Stradling, assistant professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, offers a comprehensive look at this intriguing community and how its hearty residents have built it into one of America's unique cities. With an enticing narrative, he relates the stories of Cincinnati's rich and powerful as well as its working class residents, all of whom worked to shape their community.
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A Superb, Honest History,
By Carter Miller (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cincinnati: From River City to Highway Metropolis (OH) (Making of America) (Paperback)
Cincinnati: From River City to Highway Metropolis is the best comprehensive history of the city that I have read. I was expecting to find the sort of soft, sentimental historical writing common to these airport picture books. I don't know how he snuck this one past the publisher. It is honest and it does not pull any punches. Cincinnati "is a city that peaked more than 150 years ago," Stradling writes in the introduction, and he goes on to explain why, letting the Cincinnati's history, which sometimes glorifies the city, and other times embarrasses it, speak for itself. Short and sweet, the book ends with a subtle plea from the author to the citizens of Cincinnati (and of all American cities), to avoid letting suburbanization rob them of the last physical vestiges of their vital urban history.
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The history of Cincinnati begins on the riverbank. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
highway metropolis, public landing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West End, Courtesy of the Cincinnati, African Americans, Queen City, World War, United States, University of Cincinnati, Rare Books Department, Mount Auburn, Civil War, Miami Canal, New York, Mill Creek Valley, Courtesy of Archives, Fort Washington, Fountain Square, Great Depression, Mount Adams, Ohio River, Spring Grove, Deer Creek, Native Americans, New Orleans, New Jersey, Union Terminal New!
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The history of Cincinnati begins on the riverbank. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
highway metropolis, public landing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West End, Courtesy of the Cincinnati, African Americans, Queen City, World War, United States, University of Cincinnati, Rare Books Department, Mount Auburn, Civil War, Miami Canal, New York, Mill Creek Valley, Courtesy of Archives, Fort Washington, Fountain Square, Great Depression, Mount Adams, Ohio River, Spring Grove, Deer Creek, Native Americans, New Orleans, New Jersey, Union Terminal New!
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- The Great Depression (World History Series) by Jacqueline Farrell on page 64, and page 137
- Main Street (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis on page 101
- Great War by Avery Publishing in Back Matter
- American Life by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter
- Contested Ground: Collective Action and the Urban Neighborhood by John Emmeus Davis in Back Matter
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