Leonard P. Curry

The Corporate City (eBook, PDF)

The American City as a Political Entity, 1800-1850

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book begins the comparative study of U.S. urban development during the first half of the 19th century. Breathtaking in its comprehensiveness, its survey and comparisons of early urban politics is without parallel. The study is based on a thorough examination of fifteen cities-Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Charleston, Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. Louis, and Washington. This group of cities-the fifteen largest in 1850-provides a good mix of northern and southern, eastern and western, old and new, and fast- and slow-growing urban centers. This volume deals with the city as a corporate entity and contains chapters on urban governmental structures, government finance, politics and elections, urban political leadership, the city plan and city planning, intergovernmental relations, and urban mercantilism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313029899
• Artikelnr.: 37816001

Autorenporträt

LEONARD P. CURRY is Professor of History at the University of Louisville. His book, The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850: The Shadow of the Dream (1981), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History at the request of the chair of the history panel.