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Page 37
... problems . The population of Springfield grew from 9,320 in 1860 to 34,159 in 1900 , but commercial and industrial activities grew faster than those associated with government . Typical of the period , even the capital city seemed ...
... problems . The population of Springfield grew from 9,320 in 1860 to 34,159 in 1900 , but commercial and industrial activities grew faster than those associated with government . Typical of the period , even the capital city seemed ...
Page 68
... problems of an urban and industrial state . That economic developments outstripped governmental is not surprising . Governmentally , the period is one of halfway mea- sures . The judicial article of the constitution recognized the ...
... problems of an urban and industrial state . That economic developments outstripped governmental is not surprising . Governmentally , the period is one of halfway mea- sures . The judicial article of the constitution recognized the ...
Page 324
... problems of urban blight and industrial oppression . It was an anachronism in an age of business consolidation and mechanization . But it was what people believed , and belief is a powerful force . The rural , simple , indi- vidualistic ...
... problems of urban blight and industrial oppression . It was an anachronism in an age of business consolidation and mechanization . But it was what people believed , and belief is a powerful force . The rural , simple , indi- vidualistic ...
Contents
Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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