Power and Society in Greater NY /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hammack, David C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1982]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
New York (N.Y.) > Conditions economiques.
New York (N.Y.) > Conditions sociales.
Stadscultuur.
Stadtverwaltung
Politische Elite
Politik
Macht
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Economic history.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
New York (N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.) > Politique et gouvernement > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1898.
New York, NY
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Administration > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > Administration > Jusqu'à 1898.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) > Economic conditions.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > To 1898.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Tables ; List of Maps ; List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Part I. On the Historical Study of Power ; Chapter 1. Contemporary Perceptions, Historical Problems ; Genteel Decline, Patrician Elitism, Economic Elitism, Government by Syndicate, and Other Perceptions ; Power and the Historians ; The Analysis of Major Decisions ; Greater New York as a Decision-Making Arena ; Part II. Greater New York, 1880-1910 ; Chapter 2. Economic Change and Continuity ; Merchants, Bankers, and Manufacturers: The Impact of the Corporation.
  • Business and Professional Services: The Proliferation of Expertise Municipal Laissez-faire vs. Municipal Mercantilism ; Chapter 3. Social Transformations ; Light, Shadow, and Moving Up: Contemporary Perceptions of New York Society ; Five Social Elites ; White-Collar Workers and Entrepreneurs ; Manual Workers ; Artisan-Republican Rhetoric, the Sporting Style, the Kingdom of God, and Other Political Strategies ; Part III. Mayoral Politics ; Chapter 4. Tradition and Reality ; Four Campaign Scenes ; Factions and Rules ; Chapter 5. Economic Elites and Mayoral Politics.
  • The Era of the Swallowtail Democrats Fragmentation ; The Fusion Era ; Chapter 6. Non-Economic Elites and Mayoral Politics ; Tammany Hall: The Rise of the Professional Politican ; Organized Labor ; The Transformation of Mayoral Politics, 1870-1903 ; Part IV. Major Policy Decisions ; Chapter 7. Urbanization Policy: The Creation of Greater New York ; Placing Consolidation on the Agenda ; The Pro-consolidation Coalition ; Referendum ; Brooklyn Opposition ; Boss Platt, Governor Morton, and the Legislature ; A Temporary Resolution: The Greater New York Charter of 1898 ; Conclusion.
  • Chapter 8. Economic Policy: Planning the First Subway Early Proposals for Rapid Transit ; Institutional, Technological, Physical, and Public Opinion Constraints before 1894 ; The Argument for Public Finance ; Legal and Financial Constraints, 1894-1900 ; Conclusion ; Chapter 9. Cultural Policy: Centralizing the Public School System ; The Public School System and Its Critics, 1888-1894 ; The Pro-centralization Coalition ; School Centralization as a Republican Measure ; Centralization and School Reform ; Conclusion ; Part V. The Distribution of Power in Greater New York.
  • Chapter 10. Competing Elites and the Dispersal of Power The Distribution of Resources ; The Distribution of Power ; The Inadequacy of Indirect Evidence ; The Increasing Dispersal of Power in the Cities of the United States during the Twentieth Century ; Notes ; Bibliographic Essay ; Index.

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