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Suburban Landscapes : Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Creating the North American Landscape SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801876479
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Suburban LandscapesDDC classification:
  • 307.76/09749/21
LOC classification:
  • HT352.U62 N55 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dutchness and the English Neighborhood -- Chapter 2 The Village as a Voluntary Organization, 1859-1894 -- Chapter 3 Village Landscapes -- Chapter 4 The Trolley Produces a Country Town, 1894-1920 -- Chapter 5 Country Landscapes, Bohemian City -- Chapter 6 The Middle-Class Zone -- Chapter 7 The Political Culture of Suburban Professionals -- Chapter 8 The Ideology of the Civic Conference -- Chapter 9 The Modernization of Suburban Realism -- Chapter 10 Recovering Suburban Memory -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Oral histories, census records, and the extensive work of Leonia's many artists and writers come together to trace not only the community's socially diverse history, but to show how residents viewed the growth and transformation of Leonia as well.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dutchness and the English Neighborhood -- Chapter 2 The Village as a Voluntary Organization, 1859-1894 -- Chapter 3 Village Landscapes -- Chapter 4 The Trolley Produces a Country Town, 1894-1920 -- Chapter 5 Country Landscapes, Bohemian City -- Chapter 6 The Middle-Class Zone -- Chapter 7 The Political Culture of Suburban Professionals -- Chapter 8 The Ideology of the Civic Conference -- Chapter 9 The Modernization of Suburban Realism -- Chapter 10 Recovering Suburban Memory -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.

Oral histories, census records, and the extensive work of Leonia's many artists and writers come together to trace not only the community's socially diverse history, but to show how residents viewed the growth and transformation of Leonia as well.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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