Urban History 2019
Forthcoming
A Haven and a Hell
Race Capital?
The Ghetto in Black America
Harlem as Setting and Symbol Edited by Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin
Lance Freeman "Lance Freeman provides insight into how black ghettos developed and then changed over time, giving readers a good sense of the complicated trajectory of 'the ghetto' in America.... A highly-accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban Black America."—Marcus Anthony Hunter,
coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life $32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-18460-1 April 2019 304 pages / 25 illus.
Forthcoming
Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18985-9 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18984-2 January 2019 320 pages
"Cities today are hotbeds of innovation for sustainable development, and Smarter New York City presents a compendium of fascinating and insightful case studies about how New York City is building a smarter, fairer, and greener city. This is a brilliant, timely, and remarkably useful guidebook to promote sustainable development innovations in cities around the world."—Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University and director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18375-8 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18374-1
Forthcoming
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-17729-0 $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17728-3 2018 224 pages / 11 illus.
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18148-8
2018 360 pages / 22 illus.
2017 312 pages / 13 illus.
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Art and Economics in the City
Emerging forms of alternative economy are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between center and periphery in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a concept of complex and plural citizenship. Contributors show how this economic, social, and cultural paradigm has the potential to overcome the conventional isolation of the arts and culture in ivory towers, and thereby to gradually make the urban fabric more fertile. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-4214-8 TRANSCRIPT VERLAG
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18758-9
In Pursuit of Privilege
From Head Shops to Whole Foods The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs Joshua Clark Davis "[From Head Shops to Whole Foods] makes a valuable contribution to the study of American capitalism and consumerism. It reveals some well-worn paths in American history but in new ways, while also establishing some of the ironic origins of today’s corporate citizens."
-Metropole: The Official Blog of the Urban History Association $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17158-8 2017 336 pages / 24 illus.
Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis Clifton Hood “Every city has a social and economic elite. But as Hood shows, the New York elite has always been larger, wealthier, more fluid, and more powerful than in other places, enabling it to simultaneously perpetuate class inequality and create cultural institutions that are world-class in every field. Groundbreaking and comprehensive, In Pursuit of Privilege illuminates three centuries of the New York City elite's power and influence on city building. Bravo to Hood."-
Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-17216-5 2016 512 pages / 24 illus.
Race and Real Estate New Cultural Maps Edited by Caterina Benincasa, Gianfranco Neri, and Michele Trimarchi
January 2019 250 pages
“In this thought-provoking book, Fred Evans asks which public artworks constitute acts of democratic citizenship and which serve autocratic tendencies, and proposes a philosophical criterion for assessing public artworks as acts of citizenship."
Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, E S 1890-1920 T AT AL RE $ Kevin McGruder COnFLiCT and "Kevin McGruder takes us back in COOPerATiOn in time to a Harlem on the cusp of HArLeM, 1890-1920 dramatic change. He shows us $ uptown Manhattan before Harlem was in vogue. With incredible Kevin McGruder research and fascinating characters, Race and Real Estate unveils the complicated social and business processes that changed Harlem from an interracial neighborhood into the most recognizable black community in the world."
A History of Housing in New York City
RACE AND
Revised Edition Richard Plunz
E
"A deeply personal and poetic travel through the author's own story of racial struggle and the survival tactics of the players he befriends.... In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Fred Evans
-Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
2018 448 pages / 89 illus.
Black Gods of the Asphalt
An Essay in Political Aesthetics
"This work will be of greatest interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of urban planning, urban studies, and urban sociology.... Highly recommended."-Choice
How City Agencies Innovate Edited by André Corrêa d'Almeida
Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Onaje X. O. Woodbine
cup.columbia.edu
New Yorkers on the 7 Train Stéphane Tonnelat and William Kornblum "Through their study of the subway system as a microcosm of a diverse society, Tonnelat and Kornblum make a significant contribution to urban studies." -Publishers Weekly
Smarter New York City
All the Nations Under Heaven
Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy
International Express
November 2018 312 pages / 15 illus.
All the Nations Under Heaven considers the ongoing tensions between inclusion and exclusion, the pursuit of justice and the reality of inequality, and the evolving significance of race and ethnicity. In an era when immigration, inequality, and globalization are bitterly debated, this revised edition is a timely portrait of New York City through the lenses of migration and immigration.
New in paper
"Harlem race capital, center of black culture, seat of black militancy—or dreamscape? These rigorous, innovative, and bold essays by contemporary scholars confront the myriad ways Harlem signifies and offer fresh, new ways of understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings of that iconic place."—Mary Helen Washington, author of The
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18322-2
Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York Revised Edition Frederick Binder, David Reimers, and Robert W. Snyder
To save 30% on urban history titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF
To save 30% on urban history titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF
For exam or desk copy requests, please visit cup.columbia.edu/for-instructors
-Brian Purnell, Bowdoin College
Foreword by Kenneth T. Jackson
"If your subject is the history of New York City or urban housing anywhere, Richard Plunz's book is a 'must read.' It provides an expert introduction to a touchstone New York issue, the supply and affordability of housing, and incisively surveys an inventive portfolio of solutions to dense, urban living."-Hillary Ballon, New York University $40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17835-8
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-16915-8
$120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-17834-1
$55.00 / £40.00 cloth 978-0-231-16914-1
2016 512 pages / 300 illus.
2017 296 pages / 15 illus.
Urban History 2019
Forthcoming
A Haven and a Hell
Race Capital?
The Ghetto in Black America
Harlem as Setting and Symbol Edited by Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin
Lance Freeman "Lance Freeman provides insight into how black ghettos developed and then changed over time, giving readers a good sense of the complicated trajectory of 'the ghetto' in America.... A highly-accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban Black America."—Marcus Anthony Hunter,
coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life $32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-18460-1 April 2019 304 pages / 25 illus.
Forthcoming
Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18985-9 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18984-2 January 2019 320 pages
"Cities today are hotbeds of innovation for sustainable development, and Smarter New York City presents a compendium of fascinating and insightful case studies about how New York City is building a smarter, fairer, and greener city. This is a brilliant, timely, and remarkably useful guidebook to promote sustainable development innovations in cities around the world."—Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University and director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18375-8 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18374-1
Forthcoming
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-17729-0 $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17728-3 2018 224 pages / 11 illus.
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18148-8
2018 360 pages / 22 illus.
2017 312 pages / 13 illus.
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Art and Economics in the City
Emerging forms of alternative economy are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between center and periphery in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a concept of complex and plural citizenship. Contributors show how this economic, social, and cultural paradigm has the potential to overcome the conventional isolation of the arts and culture in ivory towers, and thereby to gradually make the urban fabric more fertile. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-4214-8 TRANSCRIPT VERLAG
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18758-9
In Pursuit of Privilege
From Head Shops to Whole Foods The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs Joshua Clark Davis "[From Head Shops to Whole Foods] makes a valuable contribution to the study of American capitalism and consumerism. It reveals some well-worn paths in American history but in new ways, while also establishing some of the ironic origins of today’s corporate citizens."
-Metropole: The Official Blog of the Urban History Association $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17158-8 2017 336 pages / 24 illus.
Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis Clifton Hood “Every city has a social and economic elite. But as Hood shows, the New York elite has always been larger, wealthier, more fluid, and more powerful than in other places, enabling it to simultaneously perpetuate class inequality and create cultural institutions that are world-class in every field. Groundbreaking and comprehensive, In Pursuit of Privilege illuminates three centuries of the New York City elite's power and influence on city building. Bravo to Hood."-
Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-17216-5 2016 512 pages / 24 illus.
Race and Real Estate New Cultural Maps Edited by Caterina Benincasa, Gianfranco Neri, and Michele Trimarchi
January 2019 250 pages
“In this thought-provoking book, Fred Evans asks which public artworks constitute acts of democratic citizenship and which serve autocratic tendencies, and proposes a philosophical criterion for assessing public artworks as acts of citizenship."
Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, E S 1890-1920 T AT AL RE $ Kevin McGruder COnFLiCT and "Kevin McGruder takes us back in COOPerATiOn in time to a Harlem on the cusp of HArLeM, 1890-1920 dramatic change. He shows us $ uptown Manhattan before Harlem was in vogue. With incredible Kevin McGruder research and fascinating characters, Race and Real Estate unveils the complicated social and business processes that changed Harlem from an interracial neighborhood into the most recognizable black community in the world."
A History of Housing in New York City
RACE AND
Revised Edition Richard Plunz
E
"A deeply personal and poetic travel through the author's own story of racial struggle and the survival tactics of the players he befriends.... In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Fred Evans
-Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
2018 448 pages / 89 illus.
Black Gods of the Asphalt
An Essay in Political Aesthetics
"This work will be of greatest interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of urban planning, urban studies, and urban sociology.... Highly recommended."-Choice
How City Agencies Innovate Edited by André Corrêa d'Almeida
Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Onaje X. O. Woodbine
cup.columbia.edu
New Yorkers on the 7 Train Stéphane Tonnelat and William Kornblum "Through their study of the subway system as a microcosm of a diverse society, Tonnelat and Kornblum make a significant contribution to urban studies." -Publishers Weekly
Smarter New York City
All the Nations Under Heaven
Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy
International Express
November 2018 312 pages / 15 illus.
All the Nations Under Heaven considers the ongoing tensions between inclusion and exclusion, the pursuit of justice and the reality of inequality, and the evolving significance of race and ethnicity. In an era when immigration, inequality, and globalization are bitterly debated, this revised edition is a timely portrait of New York City through the lenses of migration and immigration.
New in paper
"Harlem race capital, center of black culture, seat of black militancy—or dreamscape? These rigorous, innovative, and bold essays by contemporary scholars confront the myriad ways Harlem signifies and offer fresh, new ways of understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings of that iconic place."—Mary Helen Washington, author of The
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18322-2
Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York Revised Edition Frederick Binder, David Reimers, and Robert W. Snyder
To save 30% on urban history titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF
To save 30% on urban history titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF
For exam or desk copy requests, please visit cup.columbia.edu/for-instructors
-Brian Purnell, Bowdoin College
Foreword by Kenneth T. Jackson
"If your subject is the history of New York City or urban housing anywhere, Richard Plunz's book is a 'must read.' It provides an expert introduction to a touchstone New York issue, the supply and affordability of housing, and incisively surveys an inventive portfolio of solutions to dense, urban living."-Hillary Ballon, New York University $40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17835-8
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-16915-8
$120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-17834-1
$55.00 / £40.00 cloth 978-0-231-16914-1
2016 512 pages / 300 illus.
2017 296 pages / 15 illus.
Urban History 2019
Forthcoming
A Haven and a Hell
Race Capital?
The Ghetto in Black America
Harlem as Setting and Symbol Edited by Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin
Lance Freeman "Lance Freeman provides insight into how black ghettos developed and then changed over time, giving readers a good sense of the complicated trajectory of 'the ghetto' in America.... A highly-accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban Black America."—Marcus Anthony Hunter,
coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life $32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-18460-1 April 2019 304 pages / 25 illus.
Forthcoming
Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18985-9 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18984-2 January 2019 320 pages
"Cities today are hotbeds of innovation for sustainable development, and Smarter New York City presents a compendium of fascinating and insightful case studies about how New York City is building a smarter, fairer, and greener city. This is a brilliant, timely, and remarkably useful guidebook to promote sustainable development innovations in cities around the world."—Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University and director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18375-8 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18374-1
Forthcoming
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-17729-0 $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17728-3 2018 224 pages / 11 illus.
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18148-8
2018 360 pages / 22 illus.
2017 312 pages / 13 illus.
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Art and Economics in the City
Emerging forms of alternative economy are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between center and periphery in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a concept of complex and plural citizenship. Contributors show how this economic, social, and cultural paradigm has the potential to overcome the conventional isolation of the arts and culture in ivory towers, and thereby to gradually make the urban fabric more fertile. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-4214-8 TRANSCRIPT VERLAG
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18758-9
In Pursuit of Privilege
From Head Shops to Whole Foods The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs Joshua Clark Davis "[From Head Shops to Whole Foods] makes a valuable contribution to the study of American capitalism and consumerism. It reveals some well-worn paths in American history but in new ways, while also establishing some of the ironic origins of today’s corporate citizens."
-Metropole: The Official Blog of the Urban History Association $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17158-8 2017 336 pages / 24 illus.
Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis Clifton Hood “Every city has a social and economic elite. But as Hood shows, the New York elite has always been larger, wealthier, more fluid, and more powerful than in other places, enabling it to simultaneously perpetuate class inequality and create cultural institutions that are world-class in every field. Groundbreaking and comprehensive, In Pursuit of Privilege illuminates three centuries of the New York City elite's power and influence on city building. Bravo to Hood."-
Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-17216-5 2016 512 pages / 24 illus.
Race and Real Estate New Cultural Maps Edited by Caterina Benincasa, Gianfranco Neri, and Michele Trimarchi
January 2019 250 pages
“In this thought-provoking book, Fred Evans asks which public artworks constitute acts of democratic citizenship and which serve autocratic tendencies, and proposes a philosophical criterion for assessing public artworks as acts of citizenship."
Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, E S 1890-1920 T AT AL RE $ Kevin McGruder COnFLiCT and "Kevin McGruder takes us back in COOPerATiOn in time to a Harlem on the cusp of HArLeM, 1890-1920 dramatic change. He shows us $ uptown Manhattan before Harlem was in vogue. With incredible Kevin McGruder research and fascinating characters, Race and Real Estate unveils the complicated social and business processes that changed Harlem from an interracial neighborhood into the most recognizable black community in the world."
A History of Housing in New York City
RACE AND
Revised Edition Richard Plunz
E
"A deeply personal and poetic travel through the author's own story of racial struggle and the survival tactics of the players he befriends.... In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Fred Evans
-Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
2018 448 pages / 89 illus.
Black Gods of the Asphalt
An Essay in Political Aesthetics
"This work will be of greatest interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of urban planning, urban studies, and urban sociology.... Highly recommended."-Choice
How City Agencies Innovate Edited by André Corrêa d'Almeida
Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Onaje X. O. Woodbine
cup.columbia.edu
New Yorkers on the 7 Train Stéphane Tonnelat and William Kornblum "Through their study of the subway system as a microcosm of a diverse society, Tonnelat and Kornblum make a significant contribution to urban studies." -Publishers Weekly
Smarter New York City
All the Nations Under Heaven
Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy
International Express
November 2018 312 pages / 15 illus.
All the Nations Under Heaven considers the ongoing tensions between inclusion and exclusion, the pursuit of justice and the reality of inequality, and the evolving significance of race and ethnicity. In an era when immigration, inequality, and globalization are bitterly debated, this revised edition is a timely portrait of New York City through the lenses of migration and immigration.
New in paper
"Harlem race capital, center of black culture, seat of black militancy—or dreamscape? These rigorous, innovative, and bold essays by contemporary scholars confront the myriad ways Harlem signifies and offer fresh, new ways of understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings of that iconic place."—Mary Helen Washington, author of The
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18322-2
Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York Revised Edition Frederick Binder, David Reimers, and Robert W. Snyder
To save 30% on urban history titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF
To save 30% on urban history titles, order online at cup.columbia.edu and enter code CONF
For exam or desk copy requests, please visit cup.columbia.edu/for-instructors
-Brian Purnell, Bowdoin College
Foreword by Kenneth T. Jackson
"If your subject is the history of New York City or urban housing anywhere, Richard Plunz's book is a 'must read.' It provides an expert introduction to a touchstone New York issue, the supply and affordability of housing, and incisively surveys an inventive portfolio of solutions to dense, urban living."-Hillary Ballon, New York University $40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17835-8
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-16915-8
$120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-17834-1
$55.00 / £40.00 cloth 978-0-231-16914-1
2016 512 pages / 300 illus.
2017 296 pages / 15 illus.
For exam or desk copy requests, please visit cup.columbia.edu/for-instructors American Capitalism
The Loop
New Histories Edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary
“From the creditor constitution to the market for slave clothing to early American mercantilist thinking, this deftly curated book samples some of the best work that the history of capitalism literature has to offer. Readers interested in new and provocative explorations of the politics, law, and culture enmeshed in American economic institutions need look no further." -Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
Kai Horstmannshoff The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses, and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff develops a theoretical framework that allows his readers to understand architectural styles as concrete expressions of historically shifting conceptions of the human, matter, space, and time. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4022-9
$38.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18524-0
2017 300 pages / 6 illus.
2018 448 pages
Transcript-Verlag
Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
Down the Up Staircase
Brooklyn Tides
Three Generations of a Harlem Family Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch "This thoughtful and sobering memoir weaves the beauty and tragedy of Haynes's family story into the complex history of Harlem.... Like Harlem's story, the memoir is bittersweet, painting a full and complicated picture of black upper-class life over generations."-Publishers Weekly $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18102-0 2017 240 pages / 13 illus.
The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan Tracing the emergence of Brooklyn from village outpost to global borough, Brooklyn Tides investigates the nature and consequences of global forces that have crossed the East River and identifies alternative models for urban development in global capitalism. Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan provide a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting this ever-transforming space. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-3867-7
Landscapes of Music in Istanbul A Cultural Politics of Place and Exclusion Edited by Alex G. Papadopoulos and Asli Duru Everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion are powerfully present in Istanbul. This volume analyzes landscapes of music, community, and exclusion across a century and a half. An interdisciplinary group of scholars and artists presents four case studies: the rembetika, the music of the Asiks, the Zakir/Alevi tradition, and hip-hop in neighborhoods across the metropolis. $40.00 paper 978-3-8376-3358-0 2018 192 pages
Transcript-Verlag
2018 230 pages / 186 illus.
Transcript-Verlag