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City Life in the Late 19th Century. Marshall Field's Building, ca. 1898. Between 1880 and 1900, cities in the United States grew at a dramatic rate. Owing most of their population growth to the expansion of industry, U.S. cities grew by about 15 million people in the two decades before 1900.
- Immigration to The United States, 1851-1900
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- Ben Dickstein
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- Illinois Steel Works & Harbor Entrance, Calumet Riv., So. Chicago
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- Harry Reece
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- The Tallest Buildings in The World, New York City
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- Immigration to The United States, 1851-1900
HISDAC-US describes the built environment of most of the conterminous United States back to 1810 at fine temporal (5 years) and spatial (250 m) granularity using different settlement measures.
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Jul 28, 2021 · Beginning in the 1930s and 1940s, a small number of academics, led by noted social historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., commenced the first wave of scholarly interest in American urban history with works on colonial seaports and select 19th-century cities.
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May 11, 2010 · Urbanization of the United States in the nineteenth century has been described in numerous scholarly texts. As Eric Lampard, writing in 1961, pointed out, “… the urban-industrial transformation [has] now become part of the furniture displayed in every up-to-date textbook of U.S. history.…”
The first, exemplified in the work of Douglass North, Julius Rubin, and George Rogers Taylor, tends to view cities as being contained in or comprising relatively homogeneous regions and, as a corollary, emphasizes the role of external relationships (for ex- Journal of Economic History, Vol XXXIX, No. 4 (Dec. 1979). ( The Economic History Associa-
But Weber cannot and does not resist circling back to industrialization—driven by liquid water as well as by steam—as the principal source of the more rapid urbanization of the nineteenth century. More than a century later, we can look back on these phenomena and come to the same conclusion.
Mid-19th c Urban America: The Growth of the American City. This Map set explores the interconnected ways that industrialization, transportation innovations, and westward expansion shaped the growth of cities throughout the United States in the Antebellum Period. Created by Kim Frederick, History Teacher, Concord Academy.
