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Book Synopsis The Monied Metropolis by : Sven Beckert
Download or read book The Monied Metropolis written by Sven Beckert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century New York City's powerful economic elite.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics by : Gerald Benjamin
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics written by Gerald Benjamin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics brings together top scholars and former and current state officials to explain how and why the state is governed the way that it is. The book's thirty-one chapters assemble new scholarship in key areas of governance in New York, document the state's record in comparison to other U.S. states, and identify directions for future research.
Book Synopsis Jim Crow New York by : David N. Gellman
Download or read book Jim Crow New York written by David N. Gellman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2004) In 1821, New York’s political leaders met for over two months to rewrite the state’s constitution. The new document secured the right to vote for the great mass of white men while denying all but the wealthiest African-American men access to the polls. Jim Crow New York introduces students and scholars alike to this watershed event in American political life. This action crystallized the paradoxes of free black citizenship, not only in the North but throughout the nation: African Americans living in New York would no longer be slaves. But would they be citizens? Jim Crow New York provides readers with both scholarly analysis and access to a series of extraordinary documents, including extensive excerpts from the resonant speeches made at New York’s 1821 constitutional convention and additional documents which recover a diversity of voices, from lawmakers to African-American community leaders, from newspaper editors to activists. The text is further enhanced by extensive introductory essays and headnotes, maps, illustrations, and a detailed bibliographic essay.
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Democratic Experiment by : Meg Jacobs
Download or read book The Democratic Experiment written by Meg Jacobs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of fascinating essays that explore topics in American politics from the nation's founding to the present day , The Democratic Experiment opens up exciting new avenues for historical research while offering bold claims about the tensions that have animated American public life. Revealing the fierce struggles that have taken place over the role of the federal government and the character of representative democracy, the authors trace the contested and dynamic evolution of the national polity. The contributors, who represent the leading new voices in the revitalized field of American political history, offer original interpretations of the nation's political past by blending methodological insights from the new institutionalism in the social sciences and studies of political culture. They tackle topics as wide-ranging as the role of personal character of political elites in the Early Republic, to the importance of courts in building a modern regulatory state, to the centrality of local political institutions in the late twentieth century. Placing these essays side by side encourages the asking of new questions about the forces that have shaped American politics over time. An unparalleled example of the new political history in action, this book will be vastly influential in the field. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Brian Balogh, Sven Beckert, Rebecca Edwards, Joanne B. Freeman, Richard R. John, Ira Katznelson, James T. Kloppenberg, Matthew D. Lassiter, Thomas J. Sugrue, Michael Vorenberg, and Michael Willrich.
Book Synopsis Seminary Notes by : University of Kansas. Seminary of Historical and Political Science
Download or read book Seminary Notes written by University of Kansas. Seminary of Historical and Political Science and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second Founding written by David Quigley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis An Elusive Unity by : James J. Connolly
Download or read book An Elusive Unity written by James J. Connolly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from the start, inherited ideals of civic virtue and moral unity proved stubbornly persistent and influential. The tension between these conceptions of public life was especially evident in the young nation's burgeoning cities. Exploiting a wide range of sources, including 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. The necessity of redesigning civic institutions and practices to suit city life triggered enduring disagreements centered on what came to be called machine politics. Featuring plebian leadership, a sharp masculinity, party discipline, and frank acknowledgment of social differences, this new political formula first arose in eastern cities during the mid-nineteenth century and became a subject of national discussion after the Civil War. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, business leaders, workers, and women proposed alternative understandings of how urban democracy might work. Some tried to create venues for deliberation that built common ground among citizens of all classes, faiths, ethnicities, and political persuasions. But accommodating such differences proved difficult, and a vision of politics as the businesslike management of a contentious modern society took precedence. As Connolly makes clear, machine politics offered at best a quasi-democratic way to organize urban public life. Where unity proved elusive, machine politics provided a viable, if imperfect, alternative.
Book Synopsis Library Bulletin by : Cornell University. Libraries
Download or read book Library Bulletin written by Cornell University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Municipal Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the consideration of city problems from the steadpoint of the taxpayer and citizen.
Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions by : Robert Clarkson Brooks
Download or read book A Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions written by Robert Clarkson Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Library Bulletin of Cornell University by :
Download or read book The Library Bulletin of Cornell University written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library Bulletin of Cornell University by : Cornell University. Libraries
Download or read book Library Bulletin of Cornell University written by Cornell University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Commission to Devise a Plan for the Government of Cities in the State of New York by : Anonymous
Download or read book Report of the Commission to Devise a Plan for the Government of Cities in the State of New York written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Book Synopsis Defining Democracy by : Daniel O. Prosterman
Download or read book Defining Democracy written by Daniel O. Prosterman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, New Yorkers approved a radical change in local democracy. By a margin of nearly two to one, they replaced the corrupt board of aldermen with a city council elected via proportional representation (PR). Rather than traditional winner-take-all elections between two candidates representing two political parties, PR allowed voters to rank candidates on their ballots in order of preference and guaranteed victory to anyone polling more than 75,000 votes. This system enabled the election of the most diverse legislatures in New York's history, comprised of the city's first African American legislators and unprecedented numbers of women and third-party representatives. With their authority threatened, the Democratic and Republican parties allied against PR and the system's coalition of supporters. Following several unsuccessful repeal attempts led by the two major parties, the election of two Communists spurred a groundswell of red-baiting that set the stage for a battle that would define New York City governance for generations. Defining Democracy examines struggles over electoral reform in New York City to clarify our understanding of democracy's evolution in the United States and the world. In the midst of global crises concerning the purpose and power of government during the Great Depression, Second World War, and early Cold War, New Yorkers debated the meaning of self-rule in the United States. Through a series of campaigns over the expansion of voting rights in New York City, activists challenged the boundaries of who could be elected, what interests could be represented, and ultimately what policies could be implemented at the local level.
Book Synopsis References on Municipal Government in the United States by : Frank Heywood Hodder
Download or read book References on Municipal Government in the United States written by Frank Heywood Hodder and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Money Machines by : Clifton K. Yearley
Download or read book The Money Machines written by Clifton K. Yearley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Money Machines advances the provocative thesis that the mechanisms for financing state and local government in the Northern United States from 1860 to 1920 were deeply enmeshed with those financing the extralegal--often illegal--activities of the major political parties, complicating reform or change mandated by the post-Civil War breakdown of the North's legal fiscal machinery. Few reformers then recognized the interdependence of government and the party money machines; fewer still acknowledged the effectiveness or social value of the extralegal machines. On the contrary, basic fiscal reform in this period was characterized by attempts to exorcise "politics" in any form, which in turn provoked counteraction from politicians whose organizations had the same need for efficient, reliable revenue systems as did governments. Dr. Yearley demonstrates the failure of the established legal money machines to cope with the demands of postwar governments facing industrialization and urbanization. He characterizes the revolt of old and new middle classes against fiscal inequity and inefficiency and shows how much of the North's new wealth escaped taxation altogether while much of its old wealth similarly went into hiding. Because of its forbidding complexities, tax reform was sustained by a small group of experts from the middle class, whose sincerity and competence were unquestionable, but whose reformism evidenced the peculiar views and prejudices of their class. Here, therefore, the graft-grabbing politician is presented in a fresh light. In his efforts to maintain his sources of revenue and power, he emerges as a vital instrument of mass democracy, of the new politics of the ever-growing urban lower classes as well as their principal source of government welfare or support. The author reevaluates the Gilded Age politician in several important ways, principally regarding his power relationship to the business communities and his ability to perform his job well despite middle class disdain and continual allegations of fraud and incompetence. Further, Dr. Yearley shows that often politicians were ahead of reformers in their fiscal thinking in recognizing and utilizing taxation of income rather than of property. The volume considers in some depth several individual reformers, revealing them to be, among other things, prototypes of present academic experts used by government to manage problems too complex for laymen. The book then proceeds to explain essential changes made in local fiscal systems and which of these were to be the most effective, explanations that are of particular interest in view of the continuing crises in state and local financing today.
