Who ran the cities?
Subtitle: city elites and urban power structures in Europe and North America, 1750-1940
By: edited by Robert Beachy and Ralf Roth.
Contributors: Beachy, Robert.; Roth, Ralf.
Series: Historical urban studies series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754651536
Subjects: Municipal government -- Europe -- History; Municipal government -- North America -- History; Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History; Elite (Social sciences) -- North America -- History; Europe -- Politics and government; North America -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : who ran the cities? / Ralf Roth and Robert Beachy; title: Pluralist power in eighteenth-century English towns : the urban elite of Kings Lynn / Emi Konishi; title: Urban power, industrialisation and political reform : Swansea elites in the town and region, 1780-1850 / Louise Miskell; title: Who really ran the cities? municipal knowledge and policy; title: Networks in British local government, 1832-1914 / James Moore and Richard Rodger; title: Running an unregulated town : strategies of Lincoln's municipal elite, 1860-1910 / Denise McHugh; title: The challenge of urban democracy : municipal elites in Edinburgh and Leipzig, 1890-1930 / Michael Schäfer; title: Governing Trondheim in the eighteenth century : formal structures and everyday life / Steinar Supphellen; title: German urban elites in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ralf Roth; title: Voluntary society in mid-nineteenth century Pest : urbanisation  and the changing distribution of power / Árpád Tóth; title: Running modern cities in a patriarchal milieu : perspectives from the nineteenth-century Balkans / Dobrinka Parusheva; title: Class and politics : the case of New York's bourgeoisie / Sven Beckert; title: A Jeffersonian skepticism of urban democracy? the educated middle class and the problem of political power in Chicago, 1880-1940; title: Marcus Gräser; title: Patrician elites and power in nineteenth-century Montreal and Quebec City / Brian Young.