the Gilded Age Jurisdictional Policy System: Jon C. Teaford observed thatthe Gilded Age city did better than contemporary history admits. The “perfect storm” of
Category: Book 1
The Early Version of Evolution of City Governance to the Gilded Age–Medieval Cities and Push Back to Dillon’s Law
The Post-Civil War Jurisdictional Policy Process Evolution An historical model of a policy area’s policy process presumes one exists in some form. To accommodate
The Early Industrial City Growth and the Physical Landscape: Transportation Innovation, Suburbs, development of Suburban Autonomy
The Industrial City: Growth and the Physical Landscape, In this section, the history emphasizes physical growth and development of the industrial city’s (Big Cities)
Corporate Structure, National Markets and Concentration: Changing Business Elites and Early Republic to Gilded Age
Corporate Structure, National Markets and Concentration: Changing Business Elites One thing for certain, economic change during the Gilded Age profoundly transformed business elites and jurisdictional
Competitive Hierarchy: An Early Version of Early Republic Transportation Infrastructure
Competitive Hierarchies: Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Development Transportation infrastructure was a crucial economic development need in the Early Republic era. That strategy required cities and
the Early Version of the Yankee Diaspora
The New England Yankee Diaspora “The New England Yankees … were almost entirely the descendants of 21,000 Puritans who arrived between 1629 and 1640.”[1] For
Ron W. Coan 