Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History

Edited by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Synthesizes three generations of urban historical scholarship
Offers a thematic and chronological overview of American urban history from the pre-Columbian era until the present
Authored, peer-reviewed, and edited by scholars expert in the field; offers a readable, reliable, and historiographically informed examination of American urban history
All of the articles appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History

Edited by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Description

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History synthesizes three generations of urban historical scholarship, providing a thematic and chronological overview of American urban history from the pre-Columbian era until the beginning decades of the twenty-first century. The 92 articles collected in these two volumes describe and analyze the transformation of the United States from a simple agrarian and small-town society to a complex urban and suburban nation. Each article has been authored, peer-reviewed, and edited by scholars expert in the field, offering a reliable, historiographically informed examination of a specific subject in American urban history.

The Encyclopedia differs from previous publications by providing semi-structured, synoptic articles ranging from 6,000 to 8,000 words or more. Each article is divided into three parts: 1. an accessible narrative overview of an important issue in American urban history; 2. a brief historiographical summary of significant writers and publications on the subject; and 3. a short introduction to essential primary sources. This tri-part format allows each article to serve multiple audiences: those who simply want an informed an intelligent introduction to a given topic; those interested in identifying the leading publications on a specific subject; and those interested in performing more detailed research.

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History

Edited by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Varieties of Urbanization
Mississippian Ancient Towns and Cities, 1000-1700
Seaport Cities in North America, 1600-1800
Industry, Commerce, and Urbanization in the United States, 1790-1870
Industry, Commerce, and Urbanization in the United States, 1880-1929
Urban Exceptionalism in the American South
Company Towns in the United States
Globalization and the American City

Political Economies
Politics in Urban America before 1940
Politics in Urban America after 1945
Slavery in American Cities
The Central Business District in US Cities
Progressives and Progressivism in an Era of Reform
The Great Depression
The New Deal
American Labor and Working-class History, 1900-1945
Public Sector Unions in the United States
Public Authorities in the United States
Service Economies and the American Postindustrial City, 1950-present
Deindustrialization and the American Postindustrial City, 1950-present
Universities and Information Centers in US Cities
Tourism and the American City since 1800
Professional Team Sports in the United States

Informal Economies
Gambling in Northern US Cities
Temperance and Prohibition
Prostitutes and Prostitution in America
Commercial Sex in America after 1920
Drug Subcultures in the American City

Urban Migrations
Immigration to American Cities, 1800-1924
Immigration to American Cities, 1924-2017
Ellis Island Immigration Station
Angel Island Immigration Station
Immigration to the United States after 1945
The Great Migration and Black Urban Life in the United States, 1914-1970
The Great Migration in Context: The Chicago Experience, 1916-1918
White Internal Migration to American Cities, 1940-1970
Polish Immigration and the American Working Class
Irish Immigration and the American Working Class

Neighborhood, Community, and Space
Spatial Segregation and US Neighborhoods
Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, and US Neighborhoods
LGBTQ Politics in America since 1945
Latino Urbanism
Native Americans and Cities
Puerto Ricans in the United States
Latino/a and African American Relations
The Asian American Movement
Japanese Resettlement in Postwar America: The Los Angeles Experience
Vietnamese Americans in Little Saigon, California

Building the Metropolis
Municipal Housing in America
Suburbanization in the United States before 1945
Urban Destruction during the American Civil War
Skyscrapers and Tall Buildings
The City Beautiful Movement
Urban Planning in the United States since 1850
Public Housing in Urban America
Housing Policy in the United States
Water and Sewers in the American City
Mass Transit in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century America
Streets, Roads, and Highways in the United States
The Automobile and the American City
Public Space in US Cities

Nature and the Environment
Parks in Urban America
Environmental and Conservation Movements in Metropolitan America
Environmental Pollution and the American City
Contagious Diseases and Public Health in the American City
Climate Change and the American City
Food in the Nineteenth-century American City
Food in the Twentieth-century American City

The Social Fabric
Religion in the American City, 1600-1900
Religion in the American City, 1900-2000
Poverty in the Modern American City
Wars on Poverty and the Building of the American Welfare State
Schools in US Cities
Nightlife in the American City
Jazz, Blues, and Ragtime in America, 1900-1945
Jazz in America after 1945
Rock and Roll
Rap Music

Violence and Disorder
Juvenile Justice in the United States
US Vagrancy Laws
Riots and Rioting in US Cities, 1800-2000
The Anti-Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles as a Reconstruction-era Event
Asian Americas and the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
Street Gangs in the Twentieth-century American City

The Postwar and Postindustrial Metropolis
The Black Freedom Struggle in the Urban North
The Black Freedom Struggle the Urban South
The Sit-in Movement
The Sixties
Suburbanization in America after 1945
Asian American Suburban Culture since World War II
Urban Renewal
Japantown and the San Francisco Fillmore District
Zoning in Twentieth-century American Cities
Gentrification in the United States

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History

Edited by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Author Information

Timothy J. Gilfoyle is a professor and former chair of history at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches American urban and social history. He is also a past president of the Urban History Association and an associate editor of the Journal of Urban History. Gilfoyle's research focuses on the development and evolution of various 19th-century urban underworld subcultures and informal economies, exemplified by A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York (W. W. Norton, 2006); City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (W. W. Norton,1992); and most recently The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo (Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2013). His other books include Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Flash Press: Sporting Men's Weeklies in the 1840s, coauthored with Patricia Cline Cohen and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Contributors:

Peter C. Baldwin
University of Connecticut

Betsy A. Beasley
Harvard University

Brian D. Behnken
Iowa State University

Chad Berry
Berea College

David Blanke
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Charlotte Brooks
Baruch College, City University of New York

David Brundage
University of California, Santa Cruz

Vincent J. Cannato
University of Massachusetts, Boston

Christopher D. Cantwell
University of Missouri, Kansas City

Court Carney
Stephen F. Austin State University

James Connolly
Ball State University

Jean-Paul R. deGuzman
University of California, Los Angeles

Andrew Diamond
Sorbonne Université

Chris Elcock
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3

Alexander Elkins
University of Michigan

Ansley Erickson
Columbia University

Robbie Ethridge
University of Mississippi

John Fairfield
Xavier University

Maureen A. Flanagan
Illinois Institute of Technology

Margaret Garb
Washington University in St. Louis

Lily Geismer
Claremont McKenna College

Erik S. Gellman
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

John Gennari
University of Vermont

Robert R. Gioielli
University of Cincinnati

David Goldfield
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Risa L. Goluboff
University of Virginia

Hardy Green
Stony Brook University, State University of New York

Claudrena N. Harold
University of Virginia

Leslie M. Harris
Northwestern University

Emma Hart
University of St. Andrews

Jeffrey Helgeson
Texas State University

Hidetaka Hirota
City College of New York, City University of New York

Emily K. Hobson
University of Nevada, Reno

Ella Howard
Wentworth Institute of Technology

Joseph E. Hower
Southwestern University

D. Bradford Hunt
Newberry Library, Chicago

Andrew Hurley
University of Missouri, St. Louis

Victor Jew
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Ann Durkin Keating
North Central College

Christopher Klemek
George Washington University

Clement Lai
California State University, Northridge

Erika Lee
University of Minnesota

Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Oberlin College

Cindy Lobel
Lehman College, City University of New York

Daryl Joji Maeda
University of Colorado, Boulder

Brian McCammack
Lake Forest College

Austin McCoy
Auburn University

Megan Kate Nelson
Writer and Historian based in Lincoln, Massachusetts

Phuong Nguyen
California State University, Monterey Bay

Becky Nicolaides
University of California, Los Angeles

Carl Nightingale
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Peter Norton
University of Virginia

Suleiman Osman
George Washington University

Dominic Pacyga
Columbia College Chicago

Mark Padoongpatt
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Harold Platt
Loyola University, Chicago

Jessica Pliley
Texas State University

Gail Radford
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Christopher Reed
Roosevelt University

Jonathan Rees
Colorado State University, Pueblo

Emily A. Remus
University of Notre Dame

Steven A. Riess
Northeastern Illinois University

Kyle Roberts
Loyola University, Chicago

Nicolas Rosenthal
Loyola Marymount University

Elihu Rubin
Yale University

Margaret Rung
Roosevelt University

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Penn State University

David Schley
Hong Kong Baptist University

Christopher W. Schmidt
Illinois Institute of Technology

David Schuyler
Franklin and Marshall College

Robert O. Self
Brown University

Jessica Sewell
University of Virginia

Adam Shprintzen
Marywood University

Christopher Silver
University of Florida

Adam Sorensen
University of Virginia

Jordan Stanger-Ross
University of Victoria

Tyina Steptoe
University of Arizona

Thomas Sugrue
New York University

Kristin M. Szylvian
St. John's University

Chloe Taft
Independent Scholar

David Tanenhaus
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Joel A. Tarr
Carnegie Mellon University

Lorrin Thomas
Rutgers University, Camden

H. Paul Thompson Jr.
North Greenville University

David Torstensson
Pugatch Consilium

Matthew Vaz
City College of New York, City University of New York

Patrick Vitale
Eastern Connecticut State University

Wendy L. Wall
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Eric Weisbard
University of Alabama

Andrew Wiese
San Diego State University

Daniel Wilson
Muhlenberg College

LaDale Winling
Virginia Tech

Jay Young
Archives of Ontario

Judy Yung
University of California, Santa Cruz

Xiaojian Zhao
University of California, Santa Barbara