TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goff,Lisa
TI  - Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor 
SN  - 9780674968967
AV  - HD7287.96.U6 .G64 2016
U1  - 307.3/30973 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Slums
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Squatter settlements
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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; restricted access
N2  - Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674968967
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674968967
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674968967/original
ER  -