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

Goff, Lisa, author.
2016
307.330973 G612s 2016
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Title
Shantytown, USA : forgotten landscapes of the working poor / Lisa Goff.
Author
Goff, Lisa, author.
ISBN
9780674660458
0674660455
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2016].
Language
English
Description
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
307.330973 G612s 2016
System Control No.
(OCoLC)921240444
(OCoLC)921240444
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Walden, a shanty or a house?
Shanties on the western frontier
Shantytowns on the urban frontier
A working-class ideology of dwelling
Shantytown's Broadway debut
Transformed by art and journalism
African American shantytowns
Depression-era shantytowns.
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