the reputation and history of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jonathan Foster.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Norman :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Oklahoma Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, map
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Imagining place -- Not always a pariah: Birmingham's journey from Magic City to Bombingham -- Remembering Bombingham: race and anxiety in post-civil rights movement Birmingham -- Never quite American: the deviantly exotic reputation of San Francisco, 1776-1969 -- Battlefield by the bay: San Francisco's emergence, trials, and acceptance as America's gay mecca -- Sinning in the desert: the origins and development of America's Sin City -- Mainstream currents: Las Vegas and respectability at the turn the of the twenty-first century -- Stigma and cities.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Foster's innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why. An absorbing work of history and urban sociology, the book illuminates the significance of ideas in shaping metropolitan history.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Stigma cities.
International Standard Book Number
9780806160719
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cities and towns-- Social aspects-- United States.