Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Author: William Cronon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2009-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393072452

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe

Social Structure and Social Mobility

Social Structure and Social Mobility
Author: Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113560438X

First Published in 1996. Volume 7 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY of the ‘American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 7 looks at social class structure and social mobility. Its articles address questions that have intrigued historians for decades. What has been the class structure of American cities during the past two centuries? How much mobility has been possible? For whom has it been possible? What has been the relationship between social and geographic mobility? Finally, how have all kinds of Americans tried to improve their social status?

Comprehensive Dissertation Index

Comprehensive Dissertation Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 934
Release: 1984
Genre: Dissertations, Academic
ISBN:

Vols. for 1973- include the following subject areas: Biological sciences, Agriculture, Chemistry, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Engineering, Mathematics and statistics, Earth sciences, Physics, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law & political science, Business & economics, Geography & regional planning, Language & literature, Fine arts, Library & information science, Mass communications, Music, Philosophy and Religion.

National Union Catalog

National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1973
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Includes entries for maps and atlases.