{"product_id":"the-new-suburban-history-kevin-m-kruse-9780226456638","title":"The New Suburban History","description":"America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as simply a refuge for affluent whites, \u003ci\u003eThe New Suburban History\u003c\/i\u003e rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. The seemingly calm streets of suburbia were, in fact, battlegrounds over race, class, and politics. With this collection, Kevin Kruse and Thomas Sugrue argue that suburbia must be understood as a central factor in the modern American experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKruse and Sugrue here collect ten essays--augmented by their provocative introduction--that challenge our understanding of suburbia. Drawing from original research on suburbs across the country, the contributors recast important political and social issues in the context of suburbanization. Their essays reveal the role suburbs have played in the transformation of American liberalism and conservatism; the contentious politics of race, class, and ethnicity; and debates about the environment, land use, and taxation. The contributors move the history of African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and blue-collar workers from the margins to the mainstream of suburban history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom this broad perspective, these innovative historians explore the way suburbs affect--and are affected by--central cities, competing suburbs, and entire regions. The results, they show, are far-reaching: the emergence of a suburban America has reshaped national politics, fostered new social movements, and remade the American landscape. \u003ci\u003eThe New Suburban History\u003c\/i\u003e offers nothing less than a new American history--one that claims the nation cannot be fully understood without a history of American suburbs at its very center.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin M. Kruse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226456633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226456638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.06w x 0.64d","brand":"Kevin M. Kruse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946341564671,"sku":"9780226456638","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2f35c59d-b097-4ec7-990a-344b167cf394.jpg?v=1681512607","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-suburban-history-kevin-m-kruse-9780226456638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}