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Race, class and power in the building of Richmond, 1870-1920 / Steven J. Hoffman.
- Title
- Race, class and power in the building of Richmond, 1870-1920 / Steven J. Hoffman.
- Author
- Hoffman, Steven J.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
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- Description
- viii, 232 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Post-Civil War Richmond's railroad connections enabled the city to participate in the rise of the New South. A compact city of mixed residential, industrial and commercial space, Richmond remained a classic example of what historians call a "walking city" through the end of the nineteenth century. As streets were improved and public transportation became available, the city's white merchants and emerging white middle class sought homes removed from the congested downtown. The city's African-American and white workers generally could not afford this residential migration, and the mixtures of race and class began to disappear. The city's size, diversity and economic position at the time allows for comparisons to both Northern and Southern cirites and permits an analysis of the role of groups other than the elite in the city building process. -- From publisher's description.
- Subject
- Geschichte 1870-1920
- City planning > Richmond > History
- Community life > Richmond > History
- Social classes > Richmond > History
- Elite (Social sciences) > Richmond > History
- Power (Social sciences) > Richmond > History
- City planning > United States > Case studies
- Richmond (Va.) > History
- Richmond (Va.) > Social conditions
- Richmond (Va.) > Race relations
- Richmond (Va.) > Politics and government
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-221) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Richmond elites and the city-building process -- The limitations of a constrained elite -- Public health and the economy : the negative effect of discrimination on the city building agenda of Richmond's commercial-civic elites -- Political action and the city-building process -- Unintended outcomes : community building and its effect on the city-building process.
- ISBN
- 0786416165 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003026709
- OCLC
- 53919928
- SCSB-11719374
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library