Comparative Urban Studies

Series Editor(s): Kenneth R. Hall

The Comparative Urban Studies Series encourages innovative studies of urbanism, contemporary and historical, from a multidisciplinary (e.g., architecture, art, anthropology, culture, economics, history, literature, sociology, technological), comparative, and/or global perspective. The series invites submissions by scholars from the fields of American studies, history, sociology, women's studies, ethnic studies, urban planning, material culture, literature, demography, museum studies, historic preservation, architecture, journalism, anthropology, and political science. New studies will consider how particular pre-modern and modern settings shape(d) urban experience and

how modern and pre-modern, Western, and non-Western cities respond(ed) to broad social and economic changes. Urban studies have traditionally been dominated by modernization theories and based in examinations of large cities. While welcoming additions and revisions to that literature, this series intentionally encourages finely crafted inquiries into the history, culture, and character of secondary cities and to work that distinguishes such cities from their metropolitan counterparts as a subject of inquiry, in both the modern and pre-modern eras and in both Western and non-Western settings.



The Comparative Urban Studies Series is sponsored by The Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University.



Associate Editors:

James Connolly, Director of the Center for Middletown Studies

Steven Morillo, Wabash College