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Roaring metropolis : businessmen's campaign for a civic welfare state / Daniel Amsterdam.
LIBRA HN57 A63 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amsterdam, Daniel, 1977- author.
- Series:
- American business, politics, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change.
- History.
- Businessmen--Political activity.
- Social policy.
- United States--Social policy--20th century--Case studies.
- United States.
- Businessmen--Political activity--United States--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Businessmen.
- Social change--United States--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Atlanta (Ga.).
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Social conditions.
- Georgia--Atlanta.
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Penn University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- At cross purposes: Businessmen's political activism before the Armistice
- Detroit: businessmen at large
- Philadelphia: Money and the machine
- Atlanta: City building in black and white
- Businessmen's social politics beyond the civic welfare state
- Epilogu: the 1930s and after.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812248104
- 0812248104
- OCLC:
- 927401375
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