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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(1):226-228; doi:10.1093/es/khn013
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.

Robert M. Fogelson. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930

New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2005. x + 264 pp. ISBN 0-300-10876-1, $30.00 (cloth); 0-300-124170, $19.00 (paper)

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Bouregois Nightmares is a useful supplement to Robert Fishman's Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987) and Kenneth Jackson's Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985). It examines the rise and continued use of restrictive covenants for suburban land development in the 60 years between 1870 and 1930. Restrictive covenants were not new in 1870, but they did not become common until the turn of the century

The intellectual father, if not the originator . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joseph Hawes

University of Memphis


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