Download or read book The Rise of the City, 1878-1898 written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger and published by Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of the City, first published in 1933, chronicles the fundamental shift from America as a rural agricultural society to America as an urban industrial center. Schlesinger suggested that the cities, not the frontier, have shaped our nation's story. With a new introduction by Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh.