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Author : Ernest S. Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:270557464
Author : Ernest Stacey Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0819130028
Author : Ernest S. Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929327328
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632807359
Author : Charles R. Adrian
Publisher : Lanham, MD : University Press of America
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019778581
Author : Ernest S. Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 081913001X
Author : Ernest S. Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002580745
Author : Ernest Stacey Griffith
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0819130028
Author : Ernest Stacey Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:254153122
Author : Ernest Stacey Griffith,Charles R. Adrian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0819130001
Author : Ernest Stacey Griffith
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0819130036
Author : Ernest S. Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:1193958758
Author : Ernest Stacey Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:3277426
Author : Charles Nelson Glaab
Publisher : Homewood, Ill : Dorsey Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015002608431
"The selected documents in this unique volume examine the history of the rise of American cities. They serve as an introduction to the vast store of largely undeveloped historical sources which illuminate the role played by cities in our nation's past. The volume reflects the increasing interest in the urban question in our society and the seemingly collossal problems facing the huge metropolis or megalopolis."--Back cover.
Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,5 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."
