 | Reforming the City: The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890–1930 Subjects: Municipal government -- United States -- History; Municipal government by city manager -- United States -- History; City councils -- United States -- History; City dwellers -- Political activity -- United States -- History; National Municipal League -- Hi; Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy. Liazos Ariane : Ariane Liazos (PhD Harvard) is a lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. This would be her first book. Her work has appeared in Journal of Economics and Sociology , Journal of African American Studies , Social Science History , and elsewhere.Ariane Liazos is a research advisor in the social sciences and lecturer at the Harvard Extension School. With Theda Skocpol and Marshall Ganz, she is coauthor of What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2006). |
