Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 264 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0801441919
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0801441919
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9780801461552
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9780801441912
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9780801441912
Content:
Through novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era.
Content:
Cover -- AN ELUSIVE UNITY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: The Problem of Pluralism in Antebellum American Politics -- 1. Explaining Tweed: The Limits of Consensual Politics -- 2. Inventing the Machine: Liberal Reform and the Social Analysis of Urban Politics -- 3. Labor's Republic Lost: The Workingmen's Insurgency and Class Politics in the Gilded Age City -- 4. The Feminine Challenge: Clubwomen and Urban Politics -- 5. In Defense of Professional Politics -- 6. Progressivism and Pluralism -- 7. The Problem with the Public: Lincoln Steffens and Municipal Reform -- Epilogue: The Last Hurrah and the Vindication of Machine Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography: Selected Primary Sources -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and index
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Introduction : the problem of pluralism in antebellum American politicsExplaining Tweed : the limits of consensual politics -- Inventing the machine : liberal reform and the social analysis of urban politics -- Labor's republic lost : the workingmen's insurgency and class politics in the Gilded Age city -- The feminine challenge : clubwomen and urban politics -- In defense of professional politics -- Progressivism and pluralism -- The problem with the public : Lincoln Steffens and municipal reform -- Epilogue : The last hurrah and the vindication of machine politics.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801441912
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Elusive Unity : Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America
Language:
English
