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Book Milwaukee History

Download or read book Milwaukee History written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Daily Bond Buyer

Download or read book The Daily Bond Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unheralded Triumph

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon C. Teaford
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2019-12-01
  • ISBN : 142143525X
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book The Unheralded Triumph written by Jon C. Teaford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. 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."

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

Download or read book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Good Tax

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joan Youngman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781558443426
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book A Good Tax written by Joan Youngman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Good Tax, tax expert Joan Youngman skillfully considers how to improve the operation of the property tax and supply the information that is often missing in public debate. She analyzes the legal, administrative, and political challenges to the property tax in the United States and offers recommendations for its improvement. The book is accessibly written for policy analysts and public officials who are dealing with specific property tax issues and for those concerned with property tax issues in general.

Book Who s who in Finance and Industry

Download or read book Who s who in Finance and Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in Finance and Industry 2000 2001

Download or read book Who s who in Finance and Industry 2000 2001 written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Supplement

Download or read book The Monthly Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: Biographies to appear in the immediately succeeding biennial volume of Who's who ... sketches of those in the news ... selected sketches of deceased biographees listed in Marquis compilations ... current additions which are being made to the standing sketches of Marquis biographees--[p.1]

Book Who s who in the West

Download or read book Who s who in the West written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who was who in America

Download or read book Who was who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Motion Picture Herald

Download or read book Motion Picture Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Times picayune Index

Download or read book The Times picayune Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in America

Download or read book Who s who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 3376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s Who in the Midwest

Download or read book Who s Who in the Midwest written by Marquis Who's Who and published by Marquis Who's Who. This book was released on 1998 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the most influential men and women from America's heartland Contains over 16,000 biographies of people working in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska. North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin in the United States, and from Manitoba and western Ontario in Canada.

Book Who s who in Commerce and Industry

Download or read book Who s who in Commerce and Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: