Holcomb, Eric L., 1966-

The city as suburb : a history of Northeast Baltimore since 1660 / Eric L. Holcomb.

Updated ed.

Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College ; [Charlottesville] : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2008.

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Center books on American places

"Northeast Baltimore has undergone a transformation from a rural area into a "city suburb," an experience shared by many similar U.S. metropolitan areas. Eric L. Holcomb's updated edition traces this prototypical process from the region's origins as a hunting ground of the Susquehannocks, through its earliest settlement by Europeans in the eighteenth century and its idealization as a picturesque landscape during the nineteenth century, to its rise as a suburb in the twentieth century." "Holcomb's obvious passion for the area, combined with his thorough research in geographic indicators such as land ownership patterns, provide a broad empirical foundation for this richly illustrated history."--Jacket.

9781930066724 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
1930066724 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9781930066731 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
1930066732 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Suburbs Maryland Baltimore History.
Suburban life Maryland Baltimore History.
Banlieues Maryland Baltimore Histoire.
Vie de la banlieue Maryland Baltimore Histoire.
Social conditions
Suburban life.
Suburbs.
Northeast Baltimore (Baltimore, Md.) History.
Northeast Baltimore (Baltimore, Md.) Social conditions.
Baltimore (Md.) History.
Baltimore (Md.) Social conditions.
Maryland Baltimore.
Maryland Baltimore Northeast Baltimore.

History.

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Location: Library main 259861
Call No.: BIB 190781
Status: Available