Between City and Country: Brookline, Massachusetts, and the Origins of Suburbia

by Ronald Dale Karr

Since 1945, American popular culture has portrayed suburbia as a place with a culture, politics, and economy distinct from cities, towns, and rural areas. In Between City and Country, Ronald Dale Karr examines the evolution of Brookline, Boston's most renowned nineteenth-century suburb, arguing that a distinctively suburban way of life appeared here long before World War II.Already a fashionable retreat for wealthy Bostonians, Brookline began to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343043
• ISBN13: 9781625343048
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.1"