The Unheralded Triumph : City Government in America, 1870-1900 / / Jon C. Teaford.

In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his commen...

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Language:English
Series:Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 102nd ser., 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 365 pages) :); tables.
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  • The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
  • Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
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