The New Suburban History (Historical Studies of Urban America) New edition Edition

by Kevin M. Kruse (Editor), Thomas J. Sugrue (Editor)

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America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as simply a refuge for affluent whites, The New Suburban History rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. The seemingly calm streets of suburbia were, in fact, battlegrounds over race, class, and politics. With this collection, Kevin Kruse and Thomas Sugrue argue that suburbia must be understood as a central factor in the modern American experience.

Kruse and Sugrue here collect ten essays—augmented by their provocative introduction—that challenge our understanding of suburbia. Drawing from original research on suburbs across the country, the contributors recast important political and social issues in the context of suburbanization. Their essays reveal the role suburbs have played in the transformation of American liberalism and conservatism; the contentious politics of race, class, and ethnicity; and debates about the environment, land use, and taxation. The contributors move the history of African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and blue-collar workers from the margins to the mainstream of suburban history.

From this broad perspective, these innovative historians explore the way suburbs affect—and are affected by—central cities, competing suburbs, and entire regions. The results, they show, are far-reaching: the emergence of a suburban America has reshaped national politics, fostered new social movements, and remade the American landscape. The New Suburban History offers nothing less than a new American history—one that claims the nation cannot be fully understood without a history of American suburbs at its very center.

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Kevin M. Kruse is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author ofWhite Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Thomas J. Sugrue is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author ofThe Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.

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Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; New edition edition (July 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226456633
ISBN-13: 978-0226456638
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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Great review of suburban america

May 31, 2007

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This book is unlike other treatments of suburbia. It covers topics that are normally ignored by standard treatments of suburbia. An example is the treatment of research universities in promoting further sprawl. Another example is the divergence among whites of different economic classes in explaining their support for further sprawl. These are just a few examples of what the author covers. To put it simply this book is a refreshing review of suburbia. If you are conducting research into the topic, you must have this book to ensure you address normally overlooked areas it will add to your theoretical perspective. A real boon to those researching suburbia!!!!

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Robert J O'Dowd

Clearly Agenda Driven

October 13, 2017

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More emotional blather than anything resembling coherent theory.

third-rate political trash posing as more

October 13, 2008

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This book offers a political "interpretation" of American suburbs. There are ten essays presented which are essentially dealing with the old laundry list of the American left: The suburbs are white enclaves of racism and ethnic hatred. The suburbs are a plot to destroy the environment. The suburbs are an improper use of land resources. The evil people of the suburbs don't contribute enough in transfer payments to other people. And the republican party is a racist institution.

Rather than research, whats presented in the book is a bunch of reactionary arguments from old left who hate the suburbs and dream of turning the clock back (politically and living standards) to 1947. Hate for suburban life is accompanied by delusions about the nature of urban life.

Rather than wagging their fingers in disapproval at the suburbs, the authors would have done far better to look at what goes on within the gated communities and closely guarded worlds of academia. There is no small irony that a book that goes to such length to bash the suburbs for every imagined evil comes out of that ultimate gated "suburban" community for the children of the rich in America known as princeton. But of course, such a place can't be bad like the suburbs because the money&buildings are older and the politics of the locals are impeccably to the left of center.

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