Title: Politics and government /
Authors: Shumsky, Neil L.,
Date: 1996
Publisher: Garland Pub.,
Physical description: xvii, 507 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Urban Politics in Jacksonian St. Louis: Traditional Values in Change and Conflict / Maximilian Reichard -- The Politics of Charter Revision in New York City, 1845-1847 / Ira M. Leonard -- Who Has Power in the Democratic Capitalistic Community? Reflections on Antebellum New York City / Edward Pessen -- Community Leadership: Baltimore during the First and Second Party Systems / Whitman H. Ridgway -- Black Political Representation in Southern Cities: Election Systems and Other Causal Variables / Margaret K. Latimer -- Matthew Livingston Davis and the Political Legacy of Aaron Burr / Jerome Mushkat -- Rising Democratic Spirits: Immigrants, Temperance, and Tammany Hall, 1854-1860 / W. J. Rorabaugh -- The Gray Wolf: Tom Dennison of Omaha / John Kyle Davis -- The Last of the Good Old Days: Politics in Baltimore, 1920-1950 / Joseph L. Arnold -- On Bosses, Reformers, and Urban Growth: Some Suggestions for a Political Typology of American Cities / Michael P. McCarthy -- Politics and Reform: The Dimensions of Baltimore Progressivism / James B. Crooks -- Municipal Reform and the Changing Pattern of Urban Party Politics / William H. Dutton and Alana Northrop -- The Reform of Municipal Government in New York City: From Seth Low to John Purroy Mitchel / Augustus Cerillo, Jr. -- The Galveston Plan of City Government by Commission: The Birth of a Progressive Idea / Bradley R. Rice -- Reformers, Factionalists and Kansas City's 1925 City Manager Charter / Donald B. Oster -- The Evolution of Municipal Accounting in the United States: 1900-1935 / James H. Potts -- Suburban Growth and Municipal Annexation in Baltimore, 1745-1918 / Joseph L. Arnold -- The State and the City / Frank J. Macchiarola -- City Versus State: The Struggle for Legal Ascendancy / Jon Teaford -- The City and the Sword: San Francisco and the Rise of the Metropolitan-Military Complex, 1919-1941 / Roger W. Lotchin -- The Origin of the Alliance between the New Deal and the Chicago Machine / Gene Delon Jones -- Changing Patterns of Policy: The Decision Making Environment of Urban Transportation / Alan A. Altshuler -- Financing Home Ownership: The Federal Role in Neighborhood Decline / Calvin Bradford.
Subject headings (LCSH): Cities and towns--United States.; Municipal government--United States--History.