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839562
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| Main Entry
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Foster, Jonathan,1972-
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| Title & Author
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Stigma cities : : the reputation and history of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas /\ Jonathan Foster.
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| Publication Statement
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Norman :: University of Oklahoma Press,, 2018.
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) :: illustrations, map
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| ISBN
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0806162260
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: 9780806162263
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0806160713
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9780806160719
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Imagining place -- Not always a pariah: Birmingham's journey from Magic City to Bombingham -- Remembering Bombingham: race and anxiety in post-civil rights movement Birmingham -- Never quite American: the deviantly exotic reputation of San Francisco, 1776-1969 -- Battlefield by the bay: San Francisco's emergence, trials, and acceptance as America's gay mecca -- Sinning in the desert: the origins and development of America's Sin City -- Mainstream currents: Las Vegas and respectability at the turn the of the twenty-first century -- Stigma and cities.
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| Abstract
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The first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Foster's innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why. An absorbing work of history and urban sociology, the book illuminates the significance of ideas in shaping metropolitan history.
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Cities and towns-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Stigma (Social psychology)-- United States.
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Cities and towns-- Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- Urban.
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Stigma (Social psychology)
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Birmingham (Ala.), History.
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Las Vegas (Nev.), History.
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San Francisco (Calif.), History.
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Alabama, Birmingham.
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California, San Francisco.
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Nevada, Las Vegas.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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307.760973
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| LC Classification
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HT123.F7175 2018eb
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