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A History of American City Government
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Author | : Ernest Stacey Griffith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : OCLC:456588981 |
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A History of American City Government
Author | : Ernest S. Griffith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:49015002580745 |
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A History of American City Government
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Author | : Ernest Stacey Griffith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 0819130028 |
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A History of American City Government
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Author | : Ernest S. Griffith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:929327328 |
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The Unheralded Triumph
Author | : Jon C. Teaford |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421435251 |
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Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
A History of American City Government the Conspicuous Failure 1871900
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Author | : Ernest S. Griffith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 081913001X |
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Daily Life in the Industrial United States 1870 1900
Author | : Julie Husband,Jim O'Loughlin |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781440863493 |
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Not just about the rise of the factories or the emergence of the modern city, this fascinating history conveys how it felt to work the assembly line and walk the bustling urban streets. Daily Life in the Industrial United States: 1870–1900 is a narrative-based social history that is ideal for college and high school students researching this era. Thematically organized chapters, devoted to Economic Life, Domestic Life, Recreational Life, and other themes, are broad in scope but include primary documents and telling details that give readers a visceral sense of the lives of people who lived during the era of industrialization. Primary documents range from first-person diaries of individuals who lived during the era, to letters from freed slaves looking to reunite with relatives sold away from them, to speeches and essays by activists including Frederick Douglass and Jane Addams. They reveal how people understood the goals of education, the legal position of African Americans in the South, and marriage, among many other daily phenomena. Readers will become privy to a range of personal experiences while comprehending the importance of the economic and social developments of the period. A chronology, a glossary, a selection of illustrations, and further reading sources complete the work.
Small Business in American Life
Author | : Stuart W. Bruchey |
Publsiher | : Beard Books |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 158798184X |
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Seventeen scholarly essays provide insights into the role that small business has played in United States history.