The Unheralded Triumph : (Record no. 232944)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781421435268
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781421435244
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780801830631
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780801830624
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781421435251
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System control number (OCoLC)1127293258
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Original cataloging agency MdBmJHUP
Transcribing agency MdBmJHUP
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Teaford, Jon C.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Unheralded Triumph :
Remainder of title City Government in America, 1870-1900 /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jon C. Teaford.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Baltimore :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2019
264 #3 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Baltimore, Md. :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project MUSE,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2019
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (386 pages):
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Media type term computer
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Carrier type term online resource
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490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;
Volume/sequential designation 102d ser. (1984)
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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General note Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
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General note 78492
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Terms governing access Open Access
Standardized terminology for access restriction Unrestricted online access
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Summary, etc. 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 comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age--especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore--to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
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Source of description note Description based on print version record.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Gemeindeverwaltung
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Stadtverwaltung
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650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Municipal services.
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Authority record control number or standard number (OCoLC)fst01029431
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Municipal government.
Source of heading or term fast
Authority record control number or standard number (OCoLC)fst01029299
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Services municipaux
Geographic subdivision États-Unis
General subdivision Histoire
Chronological subdivision 19e siecle.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Administration municipale
Geographic subdivision États-Unis
General subdivision Histoire
Chronological subdivision 19e siecle.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Municipal services
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 19th century.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Municipal government
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 19th century.
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Geographic name USA
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Geographic name United States.
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Authority record control number or standard number (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/form data or focus term History.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse.
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Uniform title Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Public note Full text available:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/70846/">https://muse.jhu.edu/book/70846/</a>

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