Title Between city and country : Brookline, Massachusetts, and the origins of suburbia / Ronald Dale Karr

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: In Search of Suburbia; Part 1. Town into Suburb, 1790-1850; 1 New England Town; 2 Commuters and Immigrants; Part 2. Inventing Suburbia, 1850-1885; 3 The Great Divide; 4 Building Blocks; 5 The New Landscape of Suburban Politics; 6 Suburbia Real and Imagined; Part 3. Suburbia Realized, 1885-1900; 7 Boulevards and Trolleys; 8 Defining Suburbia; 9 Contested Ground; 10 Suburbia on a Hill; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Suburbs -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies Urban-rural migration -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies Suburbs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Suburban life -- United States -- History HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Suburban life Suburbs Suburbs -- Social aspects Urban-rural migration SUBJECT Brookline (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century Subject Massachusetts -- Brookline United States Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781613765623 1613765622

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