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Rainbow's end : Irish-Americans and the dilemmas of urban machine politics, 1840-1985 / Steven P. Erie.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erie, Steven P., Author.
- Series:
- California series on social choice and political economy ; volume 15.
- California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolitan government--United States--History.
- Metropolitan government.
- Municipal government--United States--History.
- Municipal government.
- Politics, Practical--United States--History.
- Politics, Practical.
- Irish Americans--Politics and government.
- Irish Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1990]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociology, Erie examines a wide range of issues, including the relationship between city and state politics, the manner in which machines shaped ethnic and working-class politics, and the reasons why centralized party organizations failed to emerge in Boston and Philadelphia despite their large Irish populations. The book ends with a thorough discussion of the significance of machine politics for today's urban minorities.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1. The Irish and the Big-City Machines
- 2. Building the Nineteenth- Century Machines, 1840-1896
- 3. Guardians of Power: The Irish Versus the New Immigrants, 1896-192,8
- 4. The Crisis of the 19305: The Depression, the New Deal, and Changing Machine Fortunes, 1928-1950
- 5. The Last Hurrah? Machines in the Postwar Era, 1950-1985
- 6. Machine Building, Irish-American Style
- 7. Rainbow's End: Machines, Immigrants, and the Working Class
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 305-331.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612355769
- 9781282355767
- 1282355767
- 9780520910621
- 0520910621
- 9780585112909
- 0585112908
- OCLC:
- 630528552
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