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Atlas Historique
Author_Ralf Roth
Balkan States
Bourgeois Americans
Burgher Community
Burgher Law
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Central Government
city
City's Economic Elite
City’s Economic Elite
class
comparative urban history
Councillors
Edinburgh Town Council
educated
Educated Middle Class
Eighteenth Century English Towns
elite power structures
elites
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Freemen Register
historical analysis of city elites
history
Johann Christian Senckenberg
middle
municipal
municipal decision making
Municipal Elites
Municipal Knowledge
Paving Commission
political participation studies
power
Royal Free Towns
social stratification research
Stadt Und
structures
Town Hall
Upper Town
urban
urban governance
Urban Power Structures
Urban Sanitary Authority
Voluntary Associations
Voluntary Societies
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754651536
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and whether elites retained influence in municipal government. The essays in this collection provide a detailed examination of the relationship between urban elites and the exercise of 'power', bringing together economic, social and cultural history with the political history of power resources and decision-making. The volume challenges common perceptions of a monolithic urban elite by looking at specific case studies. Collectively these essays provide a more sophisticated view of the exercise of urban power as the negotiation of various elite groups defined by their economic, social, political or cultural privilege. To contribute to this complex account of the history of cities, elites, and their influence, the collection applies a range of methodological approaches to studying European and American cities, as well as the wider world.
Ralf Roth is Private Docent of History at the Department of History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Robert Beachy is Associate Professor of History at Goucher College, USA.
