Politics and Government: A Collection of Essays Book

	Series Introduction
	Volume Introduction
	Urban Politics in Jacksonian St. Louis: Traditional Values in Change and Conflict	1
	The Politics of Charter Revision in New York City, 1845-1847	15
	Who Has Power in the Democratic Capitalistic Community? Reflections on Antebellum New York City	43
	Community Leadership: Baltimore during the First and Second Party Systems	70
	Black Political Representation in Southern Cities: Election Systems and Other Causal Variables	85
	Matthew Livingston Davis and the Political Legacy of Aaron Burr	107
	Rising Democratic Spirits: Immigrants, Temperance, and Tammany Hall, 1854-1860	134
	The Gray Wolf: Tom Dennison of Omaha	155
	The Last of the Good Old Days: Politics in Baltimore, 1920-1950	183
	On Bosses, Reformers, and Urban Growth: Some Suggestions for a Political Typology of American Cities	189
	Politics and Reform: The Dimensions of Baltimore Progressivism	199
	Municipal Reform and the Changing Pattern of Urban Party Politics	207
	The Reform of Municipal Government in New York City: From Seth Low to John Purroy Mitchel	231
	The Galveston Plan of City Government by Commission: The Birth of a Progressive Idea	253
	Reformers, Factionalists and Kansas City's 1925 City Manager Charter	298
	The Evolution of Municipal Accounting in the United States: 1900-1935	330
	Suburban Growth and Municipal Annexation in Baltimore, 1745-1918	349
	The State and the City	370
	City Versus State: The Struggle for Legal Ascendancy	385
	The City and the Sword: San Francisco and the Rise of the Metropolitan-Military Complex, 1919-1941	400
	The Origin of the Alliance between the New Deal and the Chicago Machine	425
	Changing Patterns of Policy: The Decision Making Environment of Urban Transportation	447
	Financing Home Ownership: The Federal Role in Neighborhood Decline	481
	Acknowledgments	505