An elusive unity [electronic resource] : urban democracy and machine politics in industrializing America / James J. Connolly.
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TextPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010Description: xiv, 264 p. : illISBN: 9780801461552 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Municipal government -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century | Municipal government -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century | Democracy -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century | Democracy -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century | Cultural pluralism -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century | Cultural pluralism -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century | Political culture -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century | Political culture -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century | Northeastern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Middle West -- Politics and government -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 320.8/5097409034 LOC classification: JS431 | .C645 2010Online resources: Click to View Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and index.
Introduction : the problem of pluralism in antebellum American politics -- Explaining 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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