The History Of Alabama Urbanization
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The History Of Alabama Urbanization
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Author : Don Dodd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The History Of Alabama Urbanization written by Don Dodd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Cities and towns categories.
The Rise Of The Urban South
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Author : Lawrence H. Larsen
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-12-14
The Rise Of The Urban South written by Lawrence H. Larsen and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with History categories.
Operating under an outmoded system of urban development and faced by the vicissitudes of the Civil War and Reconstruction, southerners in the nineteenth century built a network of cities that met the needs of their society. In this pioneering exploration of that intricate story, Lawrence H. Larsen shows that in the antebellum period, southern entrepreneurs built cities in layers to facilitate the movement of cotton. First came the colonial cities, followed by those of the piedmont, the New West, the Gulf Coast, and the interior. By the Civil War, cotton could move by a combination of road, rail, and river through a network of cities—for example, from Jackson to Memphis to New Orleans to Europe. In the Gilded Age, building on past practices, the South continued to make urban gains. Men like Henry Grady of Atlanta and Henry Watterson of Louisville used broader regional objectives to promote their own cities. Grady successfully sold Atlanta, one of the most southern of cities demographically, as a city with a northern outlook; Watterson tied Louisville to national goals in railroad building. The New South movement did not succeed in bringing the region to parity with the rest of the nation, yet the South continued to rise along older lines. By 1900, far from being a failure in terms of the general course of American development, the South had created an urban system suited to its needs, while avoiding the promotional frenzy that characterized the building of cities in the North. Based upon federal and local sources, this book will become the standard work on nineteenth-century southern urbanization, a subject too long unexplored.
The Urbanization Of Modern America
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Author : Zane L. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Release Date : 1973
The Urbanization Of Modern America written by Zane L. Miller and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Social Science categories.
The City In Southern History
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Author : Blaine A. Brownell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The City In Southern History written by Blaine A. Brownell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Cities and towns categories.
The first overall historical survey of urbanization in the southern United States. This pioneering collection of six original interpretive essays--arranged chronologically--not only contains a wealth of demographic and population data and information on economic development, transportation, local leadership, race relations, and the urban environment, but confronts some of the major conceptual and methodological problems encountered in the study of southern cities. -- Back cover.
Cotton City
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Author : Harriet E. Amos Doss
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2001-07-02
Cotton City written by Harriet E. Amos Doss and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-02 with Business & Economics categories.
Amos's study delineates the basis for Mobile's growth and the ways in which residents and their government promoted growth and adapted to it.
The Urban South
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Author : Lawrence H. Larsen
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-12-14
The Urban South written by Lawrence H. Larsen and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with History categories.
In this panoramic survey of urbanization in the American South from its beginnings in the colonial period through the "Sunbelt" era of today, Lawrence Larsen examines both the ways in which southern urbanization has paralleled that of other regions and the distinctive marks of "southernness" in the historical process. Larsen is the first historian to show that southern cities developed in "layers" spreading ever westward in response to the expanding transportation needs of the Cotton Kingdom. Yet in other respects, southern cities developed in much the same way as cities elsewhere in America, despite the constraints of regional, racial, and agrarian factors. And southern urbanites, far from resisting change, quickly seized upon technological innovations- most recently air conditioning- to improve the quality of urban life. Treating urbanization as an independent variable without an ideological foundation, Larsen demonstrates that focusing on the introduction of certain city services, such as sewerage and professional fire departments, enables the historian to determine points of urban progress. Larsen's landmark study provides a new perspective not only on a much ignored aspect of the history of the South but also on the relationship of the distinctive cities of the Old South to the new concept of the Sunbelt city. Carrying his story down to the present, he concludes that southern cities have gained parity with others throughout America. This important work will be of value to all students of the South as well as to urban historians.
Alabama Government Politics
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Author : James D. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Alabama Government Politics written by James D. Thomas and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Political Science categories.
For most of the nation, Alabama government is emblemized by Governor George Wallace blocking the entry to the University of Alabama, defying court-ordered integration and championing states'-rights slogans. But Wallace?s return to power in the 1980s witnessed sweeping social and political changes in Alabama. Today the state for the most part enjoys the aura of "the new South." James D. Thomas and William H. Stewart, both natives of Alabama, bring a detailed sense of its colorful past to their forward-looking book about its government and political institutions. In the course of writing about Alabama's legislative, administrative, and judiciary branches; its local politics; and its historic relations with the federal government, Thomas and Stewart reveal much about life today in this southern state. Low taxes, industrialization and urbanization, the civil rights movement, and a trend toward two-party politics have helped to usher in dramatic changes. Although continued change is in the wind, the authors do not think that Alabama's political institutions will soon lose their distinctive Alabama character, and no book has ever described that better than Alabama Government and Politics.
Baghdad An Urban History Through The Lens Of Literature
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Author : Iman Al-Attar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
Baghdad An Urban History Through The Lens Of Literature written by Iman Al-Attar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Architecture categories.
In recent years, Baghdad has been viewed as a battleground for political conflicts; this interpretation has heavily influenced writings on the city. This book moves away from these perspectives to present an interdisciplinary exploration into the urban history of Baghdad through the lens of literature. It argues that urban literature is an effective complementary source to conventional historiography, using in-depth analysis of texts, poems and historical narratives of non-monumental urban spaces to reveal an underexamined facet of the city’s development. The book focuses on three key themes, spatial, nostalgic and reflective, to offer a new approach to the study of Baghdad’s history, with a view to establishing and informing further strategies for future urban developments. Beginning with the first planned city in the eighth century, it looks at the urban transformations that influenced building trends and architectural styles until the nineteenth century. It will appeal to academics and researchers in interdisciplinary fields such as architecture, urban history, Islamic studies and Arabic literature.
Haciendo Pueblo
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Author : Kathleen Logan
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 1984
Haciendo Pueblo written by Kathleen Logan and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
The Transformation Of The World
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Author : Jürgen Osterhammel
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-15
The Transformation Of The World written by Jürgen Osterhammel and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
A panoramic global history of the nineteenth century A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more. This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indispensable for any historian, The Transformation of the World sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments.