An elusive unity : urban democracy and machine politics in industrializing America / James J. Connolly.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Connolly, James J., 1962-
Format:	Book
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.

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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