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Title:

Boston, 1700-1980 : the evolution of urban politics / edited by Ronald P. Formisano and Constance K. Burns.

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

1984

Description:

xiii, 296 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Boston (Mass.)--Addresses, essays, lectures.--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Other Authors:

Burns, Constance.
Formisano, Ronald P., 1939-

Notes:

Most of these essays originated in the Boston Political History Project, which celebrated Boston's 350th anniversary in 1980. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Town meeting politics in colonial Boston / G.B. Warden -- Boston, 1800-1840: from deferential-participant to party politics / Ronald P. Formisano -- The politics of the Boston Brahmins, 1800-1860 / Frederic Cople Jaher --Yankee leadership in a divided city, 1860-1910 / Geoffrey Blodgett -- From party to factions: the dissolution of Boston's majority party, 1876-1908 / Paul Kleppner -- The irony of progressive reform: Boston, 1898-1910 / Constance K. Burns -- Curley of Boston: the search for Irish legitimacy / Charles H. Trout -- Boston's Irish mayors: an ethnic perspective / William V. Shannon -- Boston's Kevin White, a mayor who survives / Martha W. Weinberg -- All in the family: the dilemmas of busing and the conflict of values / J. Anthony Lukas -- Conclusion / by Ronald P. Formisano.

Series:

Contributions in American history, 0084-9219 ; no. 106

ISBN:

9780313233364 bdg.)
0313233365 bdg.)

LCCN:

83018415

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)