Author: PHILPOTT, THOMAS LEE
Title: The Slum and the Ghetto : Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle-Class Reform, Chicago 1880-1930 (the Urban Life in America Series)
Description: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0195022769. 428 pages including notes and index. Critically assesses middle-class reform, and addresses the question of ethnic Americans: 'If we did it, why couldn't they?' "...a sober, very well researched, and very valuable contribution to our general knowledge of the relations between immigrants, Blacks, and reformers in the North... a fine and sobering book." - Nathan Glazer, Professor, Harvard University. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Slight warping to red cloth-covered boards. Dust jacket rough. Solid copy overall.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; CHICAGO ILL HISTORY SLUMS UNITED STATES STATE LOCAL SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY URBAN The Slum and the Ghetto : Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle-Class Reform, Chicago 1880-1930 (The Urban Life in America Series) Afro-Americans Housing Illinois Chicago. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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