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The Corporate City: The American City as a Political Entity, 1800-1850

The Corporate City: The American City as a Political Entity, 1800-1850

Curry, Leonard P.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in American History, Book 172

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0313302774
ISBN13: 9780313302770
Publisher: Praeger
Published: May 21 1997
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.42 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.55
Language: English
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.

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