Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368837524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Public Buildings
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368837524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of Mr. Charles Henry Hart
Author: Charles Henry HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Magee's Illustrated Guide of Philadelphia and the Centennial Exhibition, Etc
Author: Richard MageeLaws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...
Author: Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etcPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
The Worlds of William Penn
Author: Andrew R. MurphyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978801777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
"Edited collection taking a wide-ranging look at William Penn's life and legacy, spanning everything from art history to literature, to history, to political theory, to American studies, to British studies."--Provided by publisher.
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryIn Union There Is Strength
Author: Andrew HeathPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. As slavery and territorial conquest forced Americans to ponder a similar looming disunion at the national level, Philadelphians searched for ways to hold their city together across internal social and sectional divisions—a project of consolidation that reshaped their city into the boundaries we know today. A bold new interpretation of a crucial period in Philadelphia's history, In Union There Is Strength examines the social and spatial reconstruction of an American city in the decades on either side of the American Civil War. Andrew Heath follows Philadelphia's fortunes over the course of forty years as industrialization, immigration, and natural population growth turned a Jacksonian-era port with a population of two hundred thousand into a Gilded Age metropolis containing nearly a million people. Heath focuses on the utopian socialists, civic boosters, and municipal reformers who argued that the path to urban greatness lay in the harmonious consolidation of jarring interests rather than in the atomistic individualism we have often associated with the nineteenth-century metropolis. Their rival visions drew them into debates about the reach of local government, the design of urban space, the character of civic life, the power of corporations, and the relations between labor and capital—and ultimately became entangled with the question of national union itself. In tracing these links between city-making and nation-making in the mid-nineteenth century, In Union There Is Strength shows how its titular rallying cry inspired creative, contradictory, and fiercely contested ideas about how to design, build, and live in a metropolis.