Bringing the Civic Back In: Zane L. Miller and American Urban History

Zane L. Miller, a renowned scholar and one of the key founders of new urban history, passed away in 2016. Bringing the Civic Back In provides a critical overview, appreciation, and extension of Millers work, including three excerpts from his final, unfinished work. The editors and contributors reflect on Millers life and work and his role in creating a Cincinnati school of urban history.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 16 September 2022
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.

Zane L. Miller, a renowned scholar and one of the key founders of new urban history, passed away in 2016, leaving academia with a significant loss. Miller was a dedicated mentor who published or fostered dozens of books and articles on urban history, and he co-founded Temple University Press's foundational series "Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy." Bringing the Civic Back In provides a critical overview, appreciation, and extension of Miller's work as a scholar, editor, mentor, colleague, and citizen. It includes three excerpts from Miller's final, unfinished work, in which he presented cities as the source of a civic nationalism he viewed as fundamental to the development of American democracy. The editors, along with contributors Robert B. Fairbanks and Charles Lester, reflect on the life and work of their friend as well as his role in creating a Cincinnati school of urban history. These original essays by practitioners of Miller's approach highlight the power of ideas to shape social change.

Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781439922439