Fit and Proper Persons: Ideal and Reality in Nineteenth-Century Urban Government 9780773592988

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Fit and Proper Persons: Ideal and Reality in Nineteenth-Century Urban Government
9780773592988

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E.P. Hennock

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Foreword
Preface
Contents
Tables
Plates
Figures
Maps
Introduction
BOOK I BIRMINGHAM
Part I The Composition of the Council 1838-1914
I The Council in the Victorian Age
2 Greater Birmingham
Part II The Municipal Gospel
I The Influence of George Dawson
2 The Education of the People
3 The Administration Reformed
4 The Liberal Association
5 Social Improvement
6 The Contribution of R. W. Dale
7 Perspectives
BOOK II LEEDS
Part I The Composition of the Council 1835-1888
I 1835-1852
2 1852-1888
Part II The New Era and After 1889-1914
1 Mismanagement
2 Public Health Issues
3 The Party Struggle
4 The Cost of Improvement
5 The Springs of Improvement
BOOK III THE WIDER SETTING
1 Looking Abroad
2 Town Councillors: the History of an Ideal
3 The Present State of the Question
APPENDICES
I The Strength of the Professions in the Town and on the Council 1841-1912: Birmingham and Leeds
II The Strength of Certain Industries in the Town and on the Council 1841-1912: Leeds
III The Comparative Strength of Religious Denominations in the Eight Largest Boroughs outside the Metropolis 1851
IV The Strength of the Political Parties on the Leeds City Council 1889-1914
V Turnover of Members of the Leeds Town Council
A Note on Methods
A Note on Sources
Index

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