Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mayors
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Annual Message of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with the Annual Reports of Directors of Departments
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mayors
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Annual Message Of...mayor...with Annual Report Of...director of the Department of Public Safety and Annual Report of the Electrical Bureau
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.) Electrical BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Annual Report of ... Mayor of Philadelphia, Containing the Reports of the Various Departments of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Annual Message of ... [the] Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with Annual Reports of the Departments ...
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Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
Annual Message of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with the Annual Reports of Directors of Departments
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mayors
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Annual Message of ... Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, with Annual Reports of Directors of ...
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mayors
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Annual Report of the Director of the Department of Public Works
Author: Philadelphia. Bureau of surveysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Sickness and Health in America
Author: Judith Walzer LeavittPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299153243
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Annual Report of the Dept. of Public Safety
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Department of Public SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal services
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia
Author: Peter McCafferyPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271040572
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In 1903, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens brought the city of Philadelphia lasting notoriety as "the most corrupt and the most contented" urban center in the nation. Famous for its colorful "feudal barons," from "King James" McManes and his "Gas Ring" to "Iz" Durham and "Sunny Jim" McNichol, Philadelphia offers the historian a classic case of the duel between bosses and reformers for control of the American city. But, strangely enough, Philadelphia's Republican machine has not been subject to critical examination until now. When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia challenges conventional wisdom on the political machine, which has it that party bosses controlled Philadelphia as early as the 1850s and maintained that control, with little change, until the Great Depression. According to Peter McCaffery, however, all bosses were not alike, and political power came only gradually over time. McManes's "Gas Ring" in the 1870s was not as powerful as the well-oiled machine ushered in by Matt Quay in the late 1880s. Through a careful analysis of city records, McCaffery identifies the beneficiaries of the emerging Republican Organization, which sections of the local electorate supported it, and why. He concludes that genuine boss rule did not emerge as the dominant institution in Philadelphia politics until just before the turn of the century. McCaffery considers the function that the machine filled in the life of the city. Did it ultimately serve its supporters and the community as a whole, as Steffens and recent commentators have suggested? No, says McCaffery. The romantic image of the boss as "good guy" of the urban drama is wholly undeserved.