| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Amy Bridges. Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest. (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1997. Pp. xiv, 244. $35.00.

A recent topic on the H-Urban e-mail discussion list concerned the scarcity of scholarship on the history of small cities and the difficulties of researching such history. Amy Bridges's fine book on municipal reform in the American Southwest helps to fill that gap and shows how to craft such a research program. 1

Bridges is a political scientist who takes history seriously, as evidenced by her previous book, A City in the Republic: The Origins of Machine Politics in Antebellum New York (1984). For the book under review, her disciplinary background turned her attention to the institutions of government and politics. Her historical inclinations led to painstaking research in the archives and newspapers of San Diego, San Jose, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. With a sensitivity to both pattern and place, she identities broad trends in municipal government and tests them against the histories of individual cities. . . .

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