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Shantytown, USA : forgotten landscapes of the working poor / Lisa Goff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674968967
  • 0674968964
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shantytown, USA.DDC classification:
  • 307.3/30973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD7287.96.U6 G64 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Walden, a shanty or a house? -- Shanties on the western frontier -- Shantytowns on the urban frontier -- A working-poor ideology of dwelling -- Squatter sovereignity: Shantytown's Broadway debut -- Transformed by art and journalism -- African-American shantytowns 1860-1940 -- Depression-era shantytowns.
Summary: "Mention 'shantytowns' today and the universal assumption is that you'll be talking about exploding slums in a developing nation in Africa, South Asia, or South America. This book adds the United States to the international discourse on shantytowns, tracing their appearance on both the western and urban frontiers of the young nation starting in the 1820s, and tracking them through the urbanization and industrialization that convulsed the country in the decades leading up to and following the Civil War. Drawing on a wealth of unexamined texts, images, popular music, and films, filtered through the lens of scholarship on everyday landscapes, Shantytown USA restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in the nation's imagination, and on its landscape."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Walden, a shanty or a house? -- Shanties on the western frontier -- Shantytowns on the urban frontier -- A working-poor ideology of dwelling -- Squatter sovereignity: Shantytown's Broadway debut -- Transformed by art and journalism -- African-American shantytowns 1860-1940 -- Depression-era shantytowns.

"Mention 'shantytowns' today and the universal assumption is that you'll be talking about exploding slums in a developing nation in Africa, South Asia, or South America. This book adds the United States to the international discourse on shantytowns, tracing their appearance on both the western and urban frontiers of the young nation starting in the 1820s, and tracking them through the urbanization and industrialization that convulsed the country in the decades leading up to and following the Civil War. Drawing on a wealth of unexamined texts, images, popular music, and films, filtered through the lens of scholarship on everyday landscapes, Shantytown USA restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in the nation's imagination, and on its landscape."--Provided by publisher.

Print version record.

In English.

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