Who ran the cities? : city elites and urban power structures in Europe and North America, 1750-1940 /: city elites and urban power structures in Europe and North America, 1750-1940. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert Beachy and Ralf Roth.
• Other Names: Beachy, Robert; Roth, Ralf
• Contents: Introduction: Who ran the cities? / Ralf Roth, Robert Beachy -- Elite and pluralist power in eighteenth-century English towns: a case study of king's Lynn / Emi Konishi -- Urban power, industrialisation and political reform: Swansea elites in the town and region, 1780-1850 / Louise Miskell -- Who really ran the cities? municipal knowledge and policy networks in British local government, 1832-1914 / James Moore, Richard Rodger -- Running an unregulated town: strategies of Lincoln's municipal elite, 1860-1910 / Denise McHugh -- The challenge of urban democracy: municipal elites in Edinburgh and Leipzig, 1890-1930 / Michael Schäfer -- Governing Trondheim in the eighteenth century: formal structures and everyday life / Steinar Supphellen -- German urban elites in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ralf Roth -- Voluntary society in mid-nineteenth-century pest: urbanisation and the changing distribution of power / Árpád Tóth -- Running 'modern' cities in a patriarchal milieu: perspectives from the nineteenth-century Balkans / Dobrinka Parusheva -- Class and politics: the case of New York's bourgeoisie / Sven Beckert -- A 'Jeffersonian skepticism of urban democracy'? the educated middle class and the problem of political power in Chicago, 1880-1940 / Marcus Gräser -- Patrician elites and power in nineteenth-century Montreal and Quebec City / Brian Young.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (310 pages)
• Subjects: 320.8/509409034; Municipal government -- Europe -- History; Municipal government -- North America -- History; Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History; Elite (Social sciences) -- North America -- History; Elite (Social sciences); Municipal government; Politics and government; Lokaal bestuur; Elite; Stadt; Stadtentwicklung; Stadt; Elite; Kommunalförvaltning -- Europa -- Historia; Kommunalförvaltning -- Nordamerika -- Historia; Städer -- lokalförvaltning -- historia -- Europa -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet; Städer -- lokalförvaltning -- historia -- Nordamerika -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet; Sociala klasser; Europe -- Politics and government; North America -- Politics and government; Europe; North America; Europa; Nordamerika; History; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351873079; 1351873075
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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