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According to Wikipedia, Olivier Zunz is a social historian, and Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia, known for his work on the twentieth-century history of the American urban society and the development of modern philanthropy. He is also a leading Tocqueville historian.

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The changing face of inequality : urbanization, industrial development, and immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920 (1983) (161)
Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (1991) (137)
Philanthropy in America: A History (2011) (74)
Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History (1985) (65)
Why the American Century (2000) (63)
Social Contracts Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century (2003) (62)
The Tocqueville review = La revue Tocqueville (1986) (29)
The Changing Face Of Inequality (1982) (28)
The Landscape of modernity : essays on New York City, 1900-1940 (1993) (25)
The Tocqueville reader : a life in letters and politics (2002) (18)
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America : Their Friendship and Their Travels (2010) (13)
The Short Happy Life of the Japanese Middle Class (2002) (11)
Landscape of Modernity (1992) (10)
The Organization of the American City in the Late Nineteenth Century (1977) (8)
Philanthropy in America: A History: A History (2014) (8)
The Flowering of the Third America: The Making of an Organizational Society, 1850–1920 (1993) (7)
Individuality and Class: The Rise and Fall of the Gentlemanly Social Contract in Britain (2002) (7)
Sampling for a Study of the Population and Land Use of Detroit in 1880-1885 (1977) (7)
The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940 (1989) (7)
Introduction: Social Contracts Under Stress (2002) (5)
Letter to Subscribers (2001) (4)
American History and the Changing Meaning of Assimilation (2016) (4)
Toward a Dialogue with Historical Sociology (1987) (4)
Holy Theory (2002) (3)
Residential segregation in the American metropolis: concentration, dispersion and dominance (1980) (2)
Tocqueville and the Americans: Democracy in America as Read in Nineteenth-Century America (2006) (2)
Philanthropy as Creed: The Encounter between Past and Present (2004) (1)
Technology and Society in an Urban Environment: The Case of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway (1972) (1)
Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America (2014) (1)
Large Corporations and New Middle Classes@@@Making America Corporate, 1870-1920. (1991) (1)
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino, editors. Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xii, 575. $59.95 (2000) (1)
Detroit's Ethnic Neighborhoods at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1977) (0)
Chapter 1. “For the Improvement of Mankind” (2014) (0)
Chapter 2. The Coming of Mass Philanthropy (2014) (0)
Chapter 6. Philanthropy at Midcentury: “Timid Billions”? (2014) (0)
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds (Book) (2002) (0)
ON THE FRINGE: PROSPEROUS OR TRAPPED? (2016) (0)
Tamara K. Hareven et Randolph Langenbach, Amoskeag. Life and -work in an American factory city (1981) (0)
Mass Philanthropy as Public Thrift for an Age of Consumption (2011) (0)
Introduction (2006) (0)
Introduction (1977) (0)
The Man Who Understood Democracy (2022) (0)
Stephan Thernstrom, The other Bostonians. Poverty and progress in the American metropolis, 1880-1970 (1977) (0)
Book Review:Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers. Sanford M. Jacoby (1992) (0)
Third Avenue Elevated Railway Through the analysis (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Law as a Character of Society: Legal Change in Twentieth-Century America (2002) (0)
Theodore Caplow. In memoriam (2015) (0)
The Genesis of American Pluralism (1988) (0)
Book Review (1982) (0)
David ROSNER, A Once Charitable Enterprise. Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-1915 (1985) (0)
Chapter 7. Investing in Civil Rights (2014) (0)
Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for what we Will. Workers and Leisure an Industrial City (1870-1920) (1986) (0)
On the Fringe: Prosperous or Trapped?@@@The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815-1860.@@@Shaky Palaces: Home Ownership and Social Mobility in Boston's Suburbanization. (1985) (0)
Chapter 3. The Regulatory Compromise (2014) (0)
The American Century : Hopes or Illusions for the Twenty-First? (1999) (0)
Response to Byron Shafer (2000) (0)
Jonathan Prude, The Coming of the Industrial Order. Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860. (1984) (0)
Of Churches in Politics (2017) (0)
Chapter 8. In Search of a Nonprofit Sector (2014) (0)
Tocqueville and the Writing of American History in the Twentieth Century: A Comment (1986) (0)
Reliving the Past (2017) (0)
Chapter 9. American Philanthropy and the World’s Communities (2014) (0)
In Memoriam: Frank M. Turner (1944–2010) (2011) (0)
The Flowering of the Third America: The Making of an Organizational Society, 1850-1920 (1993) (0)
New Assaults on the "Breakdown Thesis"@@@From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1917-1948.@@@East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio. (1984) (0)
A Reply to William Becker (1993) (0)
Charles Tilly, An urban world, Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1974, 487 p. (1977) (0)
"Problem-Oriented History": A French-American Dialogue@@@In the Workshop of History. (1986) (0)
Elizabeth Haftin Pleck, Black migration and poverty, Boston 1865-1900 (1981) (0)
Theodore Caplow (1920-2015): In memoriam (2016) (0)
Sam Bass WarnerJr. , The urban wilderness. A history of the American city, New York, Harper and Row, 1972, 303 p. (1977) (0)
Charles Tilly, An urban world (1977) (0)
Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 376 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-520-20441-7) (1998) (0)
Work and Family in Industrializing America (1983) (0)
Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899–1933. By Donald Finlay Davis · Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1988. xiii + 282 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $29.95 (1989) (0)
Lynn Hollen Lees, Exiles of Erin, Irish migrants in Victorian London (1981) (0)
Modernization and individualism : the American experiment in Japan (1997) (0)
Chapter 5. From Humanitarianism to Cold War (2014) (0)
Stephan Thernstrom et Richard Sennett, Nineteenth century cities. Essays in the new urban history (1970) (0)
"PROBLEM-ORIENTED HISTORY": A FRENCH-AMERICAN DIALOGUE (2016) (0)
Preface to the Paperback Edition (2014) (0)
History by Affirmation: The End of Democracy (1996) (0)
Sam Bass Warner Jr., The urban wilderness. A history of the American city (1977) (0)
Is There an American Urban History? A Review of Stephen Thernstrom's The Other Bostonians -- Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis -- 1880-1970, and Sam Bass Warner's The Urban Wilderness -- A History of the American City (1974) (0)
Tamara K. Hareven et Randolph Langenbach, A moskeag. Life and work in an American factory city, New York, Pantheon Books, 1978, XIII-395 p. (1981) (0)
Chapter 4. The Private Funding of Affairs of State (2014) (0)
Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for what we Will. Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City (1870-1920), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, xii–304 p., notes, sources, index. (1986) (0)
Uncle Sam's Family: Issues in and Perspectives on American Demographic History@@@Family Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900-1940 (1988) (0)
The Author Responds (1984) (0)

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