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Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London
Paper, 368 pages, 50 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14673-9
$24.50
/ £17.00
November, 2008
Cloth, 368 pages, 50 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14672-2
$50.00
/ £34.50
"Triumph of Order offers smart insights into how a city defines quality of life." — Sam Roberts, New York Times
"Triumph of Order is the all-too-rare scholarly book that, being so well written, is fully accessible to the proverbial general reader." — Howard P. Segal, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Lisa Keller's meticulously researched book invites consideration of a range of issues concerning the urban environment and the politics of public health that will be of interest beyond her major audience of political historians." — Samantha MacBride, H-Urban
"Detailed and illuminating. . . . Throughout her study, Keller compares the historical evidence to twenty-first-century events and compellingly demonstrates how nineteenth-century antecedents have contributed to modern-day perspectives and positions. This brings a refreshing sense of relevance and significance, which is so often lacking from historical studies." — Journal of American Studies
"The value of this book lies in its excellent detailed case studies of the management of particular public events." — Victorian Studies
"Lisa Keller's landmark study of public protest and public order in nineteenth-century London and New York is an outstanding piece of comparative history; it is also full of stimulating and sobering insights into the challenges and constraints of big-city living in our own day." — David Cannadine, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and author of The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
"Triumph of Order is one of the most important and provocative books to appear in recent years. Beautifully written, thoroughly researched, and impressively illustrated, it shatters our assumptions about freedom in even the greatest of cities, and it forces us to reconsider our priorities as the British and American governments use the excuse of both terror and traffic to resist even the possibility of public expression in public places." — Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor of History at Columbia University and president emeritus of the New-York Historical Society