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Ruble, Blair A. Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka.(Book review)

Publication: Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Publication Date: 22-DEC-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Ruble, Blair A. Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 (paperback edition) ISBN: 1-930365-15-2 464 pp. US $24.95

This fascinating and innovative work studies comparatively the three...

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...cities of Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka in the period between 1870 and 1920, a period in which each city were all the second largest urban concentrations in their respective nations, and embodied the cities the first flush of industrialization. In his preface, the author explains that his principal aim in this work is "to place Russia's great heartland metropolis--Moscow--into a comparative perspective...

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