Rainbow's End

Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985

AvSteven P. Erie

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

Del 15 i serien California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1990-08-09
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy
Antal sidor:359
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520071834

Utforska kategorier

Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Steven P. Erie is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

Recensioner i media

"...a provocative reinterpretation of the rise and fall of the Irish bosses. . . there is [a] great deal to chew on in Mr. Erie's iconoclastic book. One after the other, he challenges views of the old machines that sentimentality has erected into verities."

Innehållsförteckning

List of TablesPrefaceI. The Irish and the Big-City Machines2. Building the Nineteenth-Century Machines, 1840-18963· Guardians of Power: The Irish Versus the NewImmigrants, 1896-19284. The Crisis of the 1930s: The Depression, the New Deal,and Changing Machine Fortunes, 1928-19505· The Last Hurrah? Machines in the Postwar Era,1950-19856. Machine Building, Irish-American Style7· Rainbow's End: Machines, Immigrants, andthe Working ClassNotesBibliographyIndex