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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on April 4, 2008
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khn031
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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.

Jon C. Teaford. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America

New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 306 pp. ISBN 0-231-13372-3, $74.50 (cloth); 0-231-13373-1, $27.50 (paper).

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Although there are several books that survey the history of twentieth-century US cities, most give short shrift to the constellation of changes that have beset metropolitan America in the last three decades. The urban crisis of the late 1960s and 1970s has typically made a convenient bookend for the century-long story of the rise and fall of urban-industrial America, with only brief glimpses of gentrification, immigration, edge cities, and other recent urban trends looming on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Marilynn S. Johnson

Boston College


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