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Welcome to our virtual exhibit for Urban History 2025! All of the books listed here are available to you at the meeting discount of 30% off list price plus free domestic shipping. Click on the buy buttons below and use the promotional code EX58110 in the shopping cart to get 30% off physical books.*

Books in this field are acquired by Tim Mennel.

Ebook discount: Most of the books published by the University of Chicago Press are also available in ebook form from our website. To get a 20% discount on ebooks published by the University of Chicago Press, use promotional code UCPXEB during checkout. (UCPXEB only applies to full-priced ebooks published by the University of Chicago Press.)

Our featured journals are also available at a 20% discount off most subscriptions with code UCPJ20**: Our journals include the American Journal of SociologyThe Journal of African American History, and Current Anthropology.

*This offer is valid until December 12, 2025. For titles where paperback and cloth versions are available, the discount only applies to the paperback.

**Discounts may not apply to all membership journals. Postage may apply to journal subscriptions with a print component. Taxes apply. Visit the journal home pages for more information.

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Featured Books

Metropolitan Latinidad

Transforming American Urban History

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

Building the Metropolis

Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935

Alexander Wood

The Menace of Prosperity

New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981

Daniel Wortel-London

Natural Attachments

The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970

Pollyanna Rhee

Home Work

Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870–1930

Ruby Oram

Road to Nowhere

How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore

Emily Lieb

Clout City

The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine

Dominic A. Pacyga

Crabgrass Catholicism

How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America

Stephen M. Koeth

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