Shantytown, USA

Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor

Lisa Goff

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674660458

Publication Date: 04/25/2016

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320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

21 halftones

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Preface
1. Walden, a Shanty or a House?
2. Shanties on the Western Frontier
3. Shantytowns on the Urban Frontier
4. A Working-Poor Ideology of Dwelling
5. Squatter Sovereignty: Shantytown’s Broadway Debut
6. Transformed by Art and Journalism
7. African-American Shantytowns 1860–1940
8. Depression-Era Shantytowns
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index

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