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Author : Free Library of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015036740929
Author : Free Library of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082936447
Author : Buffalo Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044094006202
Author : Buffalo Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078148891
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : PSU:000055405607
Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112043173225
Author : United States. Government Printing Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435056978190
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Public lands
ISBN : UCAL:B5301339
Author : Grand Rapids (Mich.) Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015036738485
Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421435251
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015079623826
Author : Public Library of Brookline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112033768638
Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112083843810
Author : Los Angeles Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015036847690
Author : Wilmington Institute (Wilmington, Del.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112048602020
