Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Series Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Further Reflections on the “New” Urban History: A Prefatory Note 1
5. Two Cheers for Quantitative History: An Agnostic Foreword 12
6. PART ONE. THE GROWTH AND FUNCTION OF CITIES
7. 1. Large-City Interdependence and the Pre-Electronic Diffusion of Innovations in the United States 51
8. 2. Growth of the Central Districts in Large Cities 75
9. 3. Urban Deconcentration in the Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Inquiry 110
10. PART TWO. ACCOMMODATIONS TO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
11. 4. Patterns of Residence in Early Milwaukee 145
12. 5. Urban Blacks in the South, 1865-1920: The Richmond, Savannah, New Orleans, Louisville and Birmingham Experience 184
13. 6. Fundamentalism and Urbanization: A Quantitative Critique of Impressionistic Interpretations 205
14. PART THREE. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF URBAN-HISTORICAL PHENOMENA
15. 7. Urbanization and Slavery: The Issue of Compatibility 231
16. 8. Urbanization and Inventiveness in the United States, 1870-1920 247
17. 9. Firm Location and Optimal City Size in American History 260
18. The Contributors 274
19. Index of Names and Places 277
20. Backmatter 285