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Roaring Metropolis : businessmen's campaign for a civic welfare state /

Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists in the early twentieth century as they advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. Focusing on Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, the book traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Amsterdam, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016.
Colección:American business, politics, and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • At cross purposes: Businessmen's political activism before the Armistice
  • Detroit: businessmen at large
  • Philadelphia: Money and the machine
  • Atlanta: City building in black and white
  • Businessmen's social politics beyond the civic welfare state
  • Epilogu: the 1930s and after.