Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

viii, 296 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

Contributions in American history no. 106.

Subject

• Geschichte 1700-1980
• Boston (Mass.) > Politics and government

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [279]-283.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0313233365 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN

^^^83018415^

OCLC

• 9918536
• SCSB-12777620

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library