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Product Description: Written by one of the countryâs foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nationâs largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the post-war housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by upstate Republicans, to impose rent control in New York, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations...read more
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9780300191721 | Yale Univ Pr, October 15, 2013, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Written by one of the countryâs foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nationâs largest city from 1917 through 1929.
The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residentsâ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These fears, and the restrictive covenants that embodied them, are the subject of Robert M. Fogelsonâs fascinating new book.As Fogelson reveals, suburban subdividers attempted to cope with the deep-seated fears of unwanted change, especially the encroachment of Âundesirableâ people and activities, by imposing a wide range of restrictions on the lots. These restrictions ranged from mandating minimum costs and architectural styles for the houses to forbidding the owners to sell or lease their property to any member of a host of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. These restrictions, many of which are still commonly employed, tell us as much about the complexities of American society today as about its complexities a century ago.
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9780300108767 | Yale Univ Pr, October 10, 2005, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residentsâ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change.
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9780300124170 | Yale Univ Pr, September 28, 2007, cover price $28.00
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9780300090628 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $60.00
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9780300098273 | Yale Univ Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $35.00
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9780520082304 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $31.95
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9780674031104, titled "America's Armories: Architecture, Society, and Public Order" | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Looks at the design and site location of American armories, and argues that they were influenced by a fear of class warfare
9780788164262, titled "America's Armories: Architecture, Society, and Public Order" | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1989, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: During the late 19th century & early 20th centuries, hundreds of armories were built in urban America.
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9780313226427 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1971), cover price $38.50 | also contains After Oriental Despotism: Eurasian Growth in a Global Perspective
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9780405013119 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1969, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book
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9780405013287, titled "Mass Violence in America: The Complete Report of Mayor LA Guardia's Commission on the Harlem Riot of March 19, 1935" | Reprint edition (Arno Pr, June 1, 1936), cover price $20.95 | also contains Pacific Edge: Library Edition
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