| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government. By Jon C. Teaford. (Balti-more: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 272 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8018-6888-2. Paper, $21.50, ISBN 0-8018-6889-0.)

Twenty years ago, with the publication of The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870–1900 (1984), Jon C. Teaford helped change the way historians approach American urban history. Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, journalists and scholars had derided city government as corrupt and ineffectual. Teaford pushed bosses and reformers to the side of the stage and placed experts, commissioners, and bureaucrats at the center. American cities, he wrote, achieved greatness in the late nineteenth century. They built waterworks and sewerage systems, magnificent bridges and prosaic roadways, libraries and parks and municipal office buildings. In writing that account, Teaford joined other pioneering urban historians such as Eric Monkkonen, Terrence J. McDonald, and Robin Einhorn, who also analyzed urban history and governance through the prism of revenue, appropriations, and public policy.

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