Rainbow's end : Irish-Americans and the dilemmas of urban machine politics, 1840-1985 / Steven P. Erie.
Material type: TextSeries: California series on social choice and political economy ; 15.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1988.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780520910621
- 0520910621
- 0585112908
- 9780585112909
- 0520061195
- 9780520061194
- 9780520071834
- 0520071832
- Irish Americans -- Politics and government
- Politics, Practical -- United States -- History
- Municipal government -- United States -- History
- Metropolitan government -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- Irish Americans -- Politics and government
- Metropolitan government
- Municipal government
- Politics, Practical
- United States
- 352/.000899162 19
- E184.I6 E75 1988eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index.
The Irish and the big-city machines -- Building the nineteenth-century machines, 1840-1896 -- Guardians of power : the Irish versus the new immigrants, 1896-1928 -- The crisis of the 1930s : the Depression, the New Deal, and changing machine fortunes, 1928-1950 -- The last hurrah? machines in the postwar era, 1950-1985 -- Machine building, Irish-American style -- Rainbow's end : machines, immigrants, and the working class.
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