The Urban West Series
Series Editor: Amy L. Scott (Bradley University)
Urban West examines the development of primary and secondary cities in the Trans-Mississippi West including Texas and California. The series explores issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, environment, suburbanization, municipal services, public works, community building, culture, and other relevant subjects within an urban context. All types of methodologies are welcome, but special attention will be given to those manuscripts offering important new insights, novel research approaches and sources, and comparative studies of multiple cities.
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The Coveted Westside
How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles
ISBN: 9781647790349
Pub Date: 29 March 2022
Format: Paperback
372 Pages
The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city’s distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.
Cities and Nature in the American West
ISBN: 9780874178241
Pub Date: 28 September 2010
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
A thoughtful examination of the processes that have shaped the contemporary West
Sacramento and the Catholic Church
Shaping a Capital City
ISBN: 9780874177602
Pub Date: 22 August 2008
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
This book examines the interplay between the city of Sacramento, California, and the Catholic Church from the city’s beginnings to the twenty-first century, to illustrate the sometimes hidden ways religious communities help form and sustain urban community.<br>
Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude
Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin
ISBN: 9780874179699
Pub Date: 16 March 2015
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
A pioneering study of rapid urban growth in the Great Basin
City Dreams, Country Schemes
Community and Identity in the American West
ISBN: 9780874178517
Pub Date: 11 October 2013
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
The visions that shaped development in the twentieth-century West
Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle
ISBN: 9780874177367
Pub Date: 28 February 2008
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
This book traces the interplay of class, gender, and politics in progressive-era Seattle, Washington during the formative period of industrialization and the establishment of a national market economy. With the rapid westward expansion of the capitalist marketplace by the dawn of the 20th century, national political and economic pressures significantly transformed both city and region. Despite the region's vast natural resources, the West had a highly urbanized population, surpassing even that of the industrial Northeast. Westerners celebrated the region's wide-open spaces, and even though a large part of the West's economy was centered in the mines, fields, and forests, most chose to live in the city. Cities thus witnessed the intersection of class, gender, and political reform as residents struggled to <br>
Earning Power
Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930
ISBN: 9780874178135
Pub Date: 1 March 2010
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Three Years Our Mayor
George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco
ISBN: 9781647791872
Pub Date: 8 April 2025
Format: Hardcover
575 Pages
Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone’s name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was much more to this influential and fascinating man’s...
Urbanism And Empire In The Far West, 1840-1890
ISBN: 9780874175653
Pub Date: 1 February 2004
Format: Hardcover
448 Pages
A work of major significance by one of the West’s most respected historians
The Coveted Westside
How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles
ISBN: 9781647790349
Pub Date: 29 March 2022
Format: Paperback
372 Pages
The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city’s distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.
Cities and Nature in the American West
ISBN: 9780874178241
Pub Date: 28 September 2010
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
A thoughtful examination of the processes that have shaped the contemporary West
Sacramento and the Catholic Church
Shaping a Capital City
ISBN: 9780874177602
Pub Date: 22 August 2008
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
This book examines the interplay between the city of Sacramento, California, and the Catholic Church from the city’s beginnings to the twenty-first century, to illustrate the sometimes hidden ways religious communities help form and sustain urban community.<br>
Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude
Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin
ISBN: 9780874179699
Pub Date: 16 March 2015
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
A pioneering study of rapid urban growth in the Great Basin
City Dreams, Country Schemes
Community and Identity in the American West
ISBN: 9780874178517
Pub Date: 11 October 2013
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
The visions that shaped development in the twentieth-century West
Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle
ISBN: 9780874177367
Pub Date: 28 February 2008
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
This book traces the interplay of class, gender, and politics in progressive-era Seattle, Washington during the formative period of industrialization and the establishment of a national market economy. With the rapid westward expansion of the capitalist marketplace by the dawn of the 20th century, national political and economic pressures significantly transformed both city and region. Despite the region's vast natural resources, the West had a highly urbanized population, surpassing even that of the industrial Northeast. Westerners celebrated the region's wide-open spaces, and even though a large part of the West's economy was centered in the mines, fields, and forests, most chose to live in the city. Cities thus witnessed the intersection of class, gender, and political reform as residents struggled to <br>
Earning Power
Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930
ISBN: 9780874178135
Pub Date: 1 March 2010
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Three Years Our Mayor
George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco
ISBN: 9781647791872
Pub Date: 8 April 2025
Format: Hardcover
575 Pages
Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone’s name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was much more to this influential and fascinating man’s...
Urbanism And Empire In The Far West, 1840-1890
ISBN: 9780874175653
Pub Date: 1 February 2004
Format: Hardcover
448 Pages
A work of major significance by one of the West’s most respected historians