Table of Contents:
  • Part One: The Commercial Community
  • 1. The English Background
  • 2. The Commercial Community in America
  • 3. The Yankee Anomaly
  • Part Two: The Municipal Revolution
  • 4. Toward a New Pattern
  • 5. The Political Revolution
  • 6. Reform and the Ascendancy of State Power
  • 7. The Changing Nature of Municipal Business
  • Part Three: Epilogue
  • 8. The Municipal Revolution Realized.