Screen LibraryWho ran the cities?：city elites and urban power structures in Europe and North America, 1750-1940
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Ashgate,
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| Publisher Address: | Aldershot, Hants, England Burlington, Vt. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Historical urban studies |
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| Carrier Form: | xxxi, 278 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780754651536 (alk. paper) 0754651533 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D750 |
| CLC: |
D750.32-09 D771.032-09 |
| Call Number: | D750.32-09/W628 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Who ran the cities? / Ralf Roth, Robert Beachy -- Elite and pluralist power in eighteenth-century English towns: a case study of king's Lynn / Emi Konishi -- Urban power, industrialisation and political reform: Swansea elites in the town and region, 1780-1850 / Louise Miskell -- Who really ran the cities? municipal knowledge and policy networks in British local government, 1832-1914 / James Moore, Richard Rodger -- Running an unregulated town: strategies of Lincoln's municipal elite, 1860-1910 / Denise McHugh -- The challenge of urban democracy: municipal elites in Edinburgh and Leipzig, 1890-1930 / Michael Schäfer -- Governing Trondheim in the eighteenth century: formal structures and everyday life / Steinar Supphellen -- German urban elites in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ralf Roth -- Voluntary society in mid-nineteenth-century pest: urbanisation and the changing distribution of power / Árpád Tóth -- Running 'modern' cities in a patriarchal milieu: perspectives from the nineteenth-century Balkans / Dobrinka Parusheva -- Class and politics: the case of New York's bourgeoisie / Sven Beckert -- A 'Jeffersonian skepticism of urban democracy'? the educated middle class and the problem of political power in Chicago, 1880-1940 / Marcus Gräser -- Patrician elites and power in nineteenth-century Montreal and Quebec City / Brian Young. |