Who ran the cities?
| Titel: | Who ran the cities? : City elites and urban power structures in Europe and North America, 1750 - 1940 / ed. by Ralf Roth ... |
|---|---|
| Beteiligt: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Aldershot, : Ashgate, 2007 |
| Umfang: | XXXI, 278 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Historical urban studies series |
| RVK-Notation: | |
| ISBN: | 9780754651536 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Inhaltsverzeichnis |
X
- General Editors' Preface
- Preface
- Introduction: who ran the cities?
- Part I
- The British Model - City Elites in the United Kingdom
- Elite and pluralist power in 18th century English towns: a case study of King's Lynn
- Urban power, industrialisation and political reform: Swansea elites in the town and region, 1780-1850
- Who really ran the cities? Municipal knowledge and policy networks in British local government 1832-1914
- Running an unregulated town: strategies of Lincoln's municipal elite 1860-1910
- The challenge of urban democracy: municipal elites in Edinburgh and Leipzig 1890-1930
- Part II
- Diversity - Formal and Informal Structures of Continental Europe's City Elites
- Governing Trondheim in the 18th century: formal structures and everyday life
- German urban elites in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Voluntary society in mid-19th-century Pest: urbanisation and the changing distribution of power
- Running 'modern' cities in a patriarchal milieu: perspectives from the 19th century Balkans
- Part III
- Democratic Metropolises - City Elites in North America
- Class and politics: the case of New York's bourgeoisie
- A 'Jeffersonian skepticism of urban democracy'? the educated middle class and the problem of political power in Chicago 1880-1940
- Patrician elites and power in 19th century Montreal and Quebec City
- Bibliography
- Index
