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An elusive unity urban democracy and machine politics in industrializing America /

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Main Author: Connolly, James J., 1962-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
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 century.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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