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Downtown America: a history of the place and the people who made it
Alison Isenberg
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page xi)
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Acknowledgments (page xv)
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INTRODUCTION Beyond Decline: Assessing the Values of Urban Commercial Life in the Twentieth Century (page 1)
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CHAPTER 1 City Beautiful or Beautiful Mess? The Gendered Origins of a Civic Ideal (page 13)
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CHAPTER 2 Fixing an Image of Commercial Dignity: Postcards and the Business of Planning Main Street (page 42)
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CHAPTER 3 "Mrs. Consumer," "Mrs. Brown America," and "Mr. Chain Store Man": Economic Woman and the Laws of Retail (page 78)
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CHAPTER 4 Main Street's Interior Frontier: Innovation amid Depression and War (page 124)
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CHAPTER 5 "The Demolition of Our Outworn Past": Suburban Shoppers and the Logic of Urban Renewal (page 166)
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CHAPTER 6 The Hollow Prize? Black Buyers, Racial Violence, and the Riot Renaissance (page 203)
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CHAPTER 7 Animated by Nostalgia: Preservation and Vacancy since the 1960s (page 255)
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CONCLUSION "The Lights Are Much Brighter There" (page 312)
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List of Archival Collections (page 319)
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Notes (page 321)
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Index (page 421)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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ES | 9.1 (Mar. 2008): 228-231 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/enterprise_and_society/v009/9.1.gogan.html |
JSocH | 39.2 (Winter 2005): 566-568 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v039/39.2winling.html |
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Published: c2004
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
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