| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Evelyn Gonzalez. The Bronx. (The Columbia History of Urban Life.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 263. $29.50
Once a "wonder borough" of attractive homes and parks, the Bronx became a residential suburb of Manhattan that was annexed in 1874 and made a borough in 1898. By the 1970s, though, it symbolized urban decay. Evelyn Gonzalez attributes this not to racial discrimination, rampant crime, postwar liberalism, or big government but rather to the same kinds of social projects, economic transactions, political choices, and human preferences that were once central to the borough.	1
The study begins in the 1840s, with the formation of the villages north of the Harlem River and west of the Bronx River: Mott Haven, Melrose, Morrisania, Clare-mont, Hunts Point, and Crotona Park East. These became the heart of the South Bronx, on which most of this book focuses. Over time, the South Bronx included everything south of Fordham Road. This region became the "most extensively abandoned piece of urban geography in the United States" (p. 109). Four-fifths of its residents were blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Hispanics.	. . .

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