Ebook: The city in American political development

The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building.;The City in American Political Development -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I American Exceptionalism and the City -- 1 The City and Exceptionalism in American Political Development -- 2 Against Exceptionalism -- 3 Town and Country in the Redefinition of State-Federal Power -- Part II Rethinking Urban Politics -- 4 Challenging the Machine- Reform Dichotomy -- 5 Through a Glass Darkly -- Part III City, Space, and Nation -- 6 Is There a Politics of"Urban" Development? -- 7 Urban Space and American Political Development -- 8 Placing American Political Development -- Part IV The National Significance of Urban Immigrant, Racial, and Ethnic Politics -- 9 Riots as Critical Junctures -- 10 Roots -- 11 Immigration and Institutional Change -- Conclusion -- Index.