Community and Social Change in America / Edition 1

by Thomas Bender

Overview

Did urbanization kill 'community' in the nineteenth century, or even earlier? In this highly regarded volume Bender argues not only that community survivedthe trials of industrialization and urbanization but that it remains a fundamental element of American society today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801829246
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	10/17/2000
Series:	Sanford-Erpf Lecture Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
	Abbreviations	xiii
Chapter 1	Introduction: The Meanings of Community	3
Chapter 2	Social Theory and the Problem of Community	15
Chapter 3	Community in American History	45
	Community in American Historiography	45
	Locality as Community, 1630-1870	61
	Community and the Bifurcation of Society, 1850-1900	108
Chapter 4	Social Networks and the Experience of Community	121
Chapter 5	Epilog: History and Community Today	143
	Index	151

Editorial Reviews

Lively and provocative . . . A stunning critique of the definition of community common in twentieth-century theory . . . Graceful and intelligent throughout.
—American Historical Review

From the Publisher

Lively and provocative . . . A stunning critique of the definition of community common in twentieth-century theory . . . Graceful and intelligent throughout.

American Historical Review