Title: Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750 1940
Abstract: Contents: General Editors' Preface Preface Introduction: who ran the cities?, Ralf Roth and Robert Beachy. Part I The British Model - City Elites in the United Kingdom: Elite and pluralist power in 18th century English towns: a case study of King's Lynn, Emi Kinoshi 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 and 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 SchAfer. Part II Diversity - Formal and Informal Structures of Continental Europe's City Elites: Governing Trondheim in the 18th century: formal structures and everyday life, Steinar Supphellen German urban elites in the 18th and 19th centuries, Ralf Roth Voluntary society in mid-19th-century Pest: urbanisation and the changing distribution of power, AurpA!d TA^3th Running 'modern' cities in a patriarchal milieu: perspectives from the 19th century Balkans, Dobrinka Parusheva. Part III Democratic Metropolises - City Elites in North America: 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 GrAser Patrician elites and power in 19th century Montreal and Quebec City, Brian Young Bibliography Index.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-09-28
Language: en
Type: book
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