Shantytown, USA

Shantytown, USA
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780674660458
ISBN-13 : 0674660455
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Book Synopsis Shantytown, USA by : Lisa Goff

Download or read book Shantytown, USA written by Lisa Goff and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street.


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