TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connolly,James J.
TI  - An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America
SN  - 9780801461552
AV  - JS431 -- .C645 2010eb 
U1  - 320.8/5097409034 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Municipal government -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Municipal government -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Democracy -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Democracy -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Cultural pluralism -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Cultural pluralism -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Political culture -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -