Contents
Introduction
I. The Mercantile Era
1. Economic Structure, Demographic Change, and Income Inequality in Antebellum New York - Diane Lindstrom
2. Culture, Class, and Place in Antebellum New York - Peter G. Buckley
3. Rethinking the Origins of Machine Politics - Amy Bridges
II. The Industrial Era
4. Manhattan's Business District in the Industrial Age - Emanuel Tobier
5. The Launching of a Commercial Culture: New York City, 1860-1930 - William R. Taylor
6. Political Incorporation and Containment: Regime Transformation in New York City - Martin Shefter
III. The Postindustrial Era
7. Governing Regimes and the Politcal Economy of Development in New York City, 1946-1984 - Norman I. Fainstein, Susan S. Fainstein
8. White Ethnicity: Ecological Dimensions - William Kornblum, James Beshers
9. The Postindustrial Transformation of the Politcal Order in New York City - John Hull Mollenkopf
IV. Conclusions
10. Metropolitan Life and the Making of Public Culture - Thomas Bender
11. The Place of Politics and the Politics of Place - John Hull Mollenkopf
12. Reflections on Space and the City - Ira Katznelson
Name Index
Subject Index