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The Corporate City
Leonard P. Curry
其他書名
The American City as a Political Entity, 1800-1850
出版Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 1997-05-21
主題History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / General
ISBN031302989X9780313029899
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4HrDEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.