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An Elusive Unity : Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801461552
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Elusive UnityDDC classification:
  • 320.8/5097409034
LOC classification:
  • JS431 -- .C645 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- AN ELUSIVE UNITY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: The Problem of Pluralism in Antebellum American Politics -- 1. Explaining Tweed: The Limits of Consensual Politics -- 2. Inventing the Machine: Liberal Reform and the Social Analysis of Urban Politics -- 3. Labor's Republic Lost: The Workingmen's Insurgency and Class Politics in the Gilded Age City -- 4. The Feminine Challenge: Clubwomen and Urban Politics -- 5. In Defense of Professional Politics -- 6. Progressivism and Pluralism -- 7. The Problem with the Public: Lincoln Steffens and Municipal Reform -- Epilogue: The Last Hurrah and the Vindication of Machine Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography: Selected Primary Sources -- Index.
Summary: Through novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era.
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Cover -- AN ELUSIVE UNITY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: The Problem of Pluralism in Antebellum American Politics -- 1. Explaining Tweed: The Limits of Consensual Politics -- 2. Inventing the Machine: Liberal Reform and the Social Analysis of Urban Politics -- 3. Labor's Republic Lost: The Workingmen's Insurgency and Class Politics in the Gilded Age City -- 4. The Feminine Challenge: Clubwomen and Urban Politics -- 5. In Defense of Professional Politics -- 6. Progressivism and Pluralism -- 7. The Problem with the Public: Lincoln Steffens and Municipal Reform -- Epilogue: The Last Hurrah and the Vindication of Machine Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography: Selected Primary Sources -- Index.

Through novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era.

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