Format:
Online-Ressource (360 p.)
ISBN:
9780520071834
Series Statement:
California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy v.15
Content:
Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociology, Erie examines a wide range of issues, including the relationship between city and state politics, the manner in which machines shaped ethnic and working-class politics, and the reasons why centralized party organizations failed to emerge in Boston and Philadelphia despite their large Irish popula
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1. The Irish and the Big-City Machines; 2. Building the Nineteenth-Century Machines, 1840-1896; 3. Guardians of Power: The Irish Versus the New Immigrants, 1896-1928; 4. The Crisis of the 1930s: The Depression, the New Deal, and Changing Machine Fortunes, 1928-1950; 5. The Last Hurrah? Machines in the Postwar Era, 1950-1985; 6. Machine Building, Irish-American Style; 7. Rainbow's End: Machines, Immigrants, and the Working Class; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y;
Additional Edition:
9780520910621
Additional Edition:
Print version Rainbow's End : Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985
Language:
English
Keywords:
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