Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920

by Alexander von Hoffman and Professor Alexander Von Hoffman

Book Overview

In Local Attachments Alexander von Hoffman explores the emergence of the modern urban neighborhood in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining Boston's outer-city neighborhood, Jamaica Plain. Like other American urban neighborhoods of the era, Jamaica Plain experienced the arrival of many ethnic groups, a house-building boom for members of every social class, and the creation of commercial, industrial,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801847109
• ISBN13: 9780801847103
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.