Search Results for: Cities In American Political History

There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments—cities—in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty o

Profiling the ten most populous cities in the United States during ten critical eras of political development, Cities in American Political History presents a u

Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What

A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond Why is it

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of t