• Part I: The Preindustrial CityChapter 1: The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700–1820Chapter 2: Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel "Riots" and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York CityChapter 3: The Enemy Within: Some Effects of Foreign Immigrants on Antebellum Southern CitiesChapter 4: The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social OrderPart II: The Industrial CityChapter 5: The Centrality of the Horse in the Nineteenth-Century American CityChapter 6: Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889–1913Chapter 7: The "Poor Man's Friend": Saloonkeepers, Workers, and the Code of Reciprocity in U.S. Barrooms, 1870–1920Chapter 8: Leisure and LaborChapter 9: Chicago's 1919 Race Riot: Ethnicity, Class, and Urban ViolencePart III: The Twentieth-Century CityChapter 10: Music and Mass Culture in Mexican-American Los AngelesChapter 11: The New Deal in DallasChapter 12: Harold and Dutch: A Comparative Look at Chicago's and New Orlean's First Black MayorsChapter 13: Blacks and Hispanics in Multicultural America: A Miami Case StudyChapter 14: Bold New City or Built-up 'Burb? Redefining Contemporary SuburbiaPart IV: The Historiography of Urban AmericaChapter 15: New Perspectives on American Urban History

A testament to the diversity of topics, theories, and researchers who find a home in the field of urban history today. The essays written by Mohl show how the research of historians and other urbanists over the last forty years can flow together to form a coherent story of America’s development and urbanization.