Includes bibliographical references and index.

The social evolution of preindustrial American cities, 1700-1820 / Gary B. Nash -- Slavery, emancipation and class formation in colonial and early national New York City / Leslie M. Harris -- The enemy within : some effects of foreign immigrants on antebellum southern cities / Randall M. Miller -- Underworlds and underdogs : big Tim Sullivan and metropolitan politics in New York, 1889-1913 / Daniel Czitrom -- The poor man's friend : saloonkeepers, workers and the code of reciprocity in U.S. barrooms, 1879-1920 / Madelon Powers -- Leisure and labor / Kathy Peiss -- Chicago's 1919 race riot : ethnicity, class and urban violence / Dominic A. Pacyga -- Pittsburgh's three rivers : from industrial infrastructure to environmental asset / Timothy M. Collins, Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr -- The New Deal in Dallas / Roger Biles -- Crabgrass-roots politics : race, rights and the reaction against liberalism in the urban North, 1840-1964 / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Popular culture in the age of white flight : film noir, Disneyland and the Cold War (sub)urban imaginary / Eric Avila -- Planned destruction : the interstates and central city housing / Raymond A. Mohl -- Harold and Dutch : a comparative look at the first black mayors of Chicago and New Orleans / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Latino immigrants and the politics of space in Atlanta / Mary E. Odem -- What is an American city? / Michael B. Katz -- New perspectives on American urban history / Raymond A. Mohl and Roger Biles.