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Crisis and commission government in Memphis : elite rule in a Gilded Age city
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Title
Crisis and commission government in Memphis : elite rule in a Gilded Age city / Lynette Boney Wrenn.
ISBN
0870499971 (cloth : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1998.
Physical Description
xxiii, 231 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes
Polk's map of Memphis, Tenn. on endpapers.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-213) and index.
Contents
Child of the Mississippi
Crises of debt and disease
Exit Memphis
The oligarchy
A model sewer system
Debt settlement
Municipal services
Regulation of public service corporations
A house divided
The Memphis plan of structural reform.
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