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Boston, 1700-1980 : the evolution of urban politics

Author: Ronald P Formisano; Constance K Burns
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.
Series: Contributions in American history, no. 106.
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Boston, 1700-1980.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984
(OCoLC)607745682
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald P Formisano; Constance K Burns
ISBN: 0313233365 9780313233364
OCLC Number: 9918536
Notes: Most of these essays originated in the Boston Political History Project, which celebrated Boston's 350th anniversary in 1980.
Includes index.
Description: viii, 296 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Town meeting politics in colonial and revolutionary Boston / G.B. Warden --
Boston, 1800-1840 From deferential-participant to party politics / Ronald P. Formisano --
The politics of the Boston Brahmins / Frederic Cople Jaher --
Yankee leadership in a divided city, 1860-1890 / Geoffrey Blodgett --
From party to factions / Paul Kleppner --
The irony of progressive reform / Constance K. Burns --
Curley of Boston: the search for Irish legitimacy / Charles H. Trout --
Boston's Irish mayors / 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 Title: Contributions in American history, no. 106.
Responsibility: edited by Ronald P. Formisano and Constance K. Burns.

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