Chapter 19: Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900

Section 19: Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900 focuses on:
 * The rise of cities
 * Social changes and reform

Section Headings

 * 1) Introduction: The Overcrowded City (539)
 * 2) The Lure of the City (540)
 * 3) Skyscrapers and Suburbs (540)
 * 4) Tenements and the Problems of Overcrowding (541)
 * 5) Strangers in a New Land (543)
 * 6) Immigrants and the City (547)
 * 7) The House That Tweed Built (548)
 * 8) Social and Cultural Change 1877-1900 (550)
 * 9) Manners and Mores (551)
 * 10) Leisure and Entertainment (552)
 * 11) Changes in Family Life (553)
 * 12) Changing Views: A Growing Assertiveness Among Women (554)
 * 13) Educating the Masses (555)
 * 14) Higher Education (557)
 * 15) The Stirrings of Reform (560)
 * 16) Progress and Poverty (560)
 * 17) New Currents in Social Thought (560)
 * 18) The Settlement Houses (562)
 * 19) A Crisis in Social Welfare (564)
 * 20) Conclusion: The Pluralistic Society (565)