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• The Struggle for Self-Government: Being an Attempt to Trace American Political Corruption to its Sources in Six States of the United States (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1906), by Lincoln Steffens
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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• Careers in City Politics: The Case for Urban Democracy (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1993), by Timothy Bledsoe (page images at Pitt)
• State Administrative Supervision Over Cities in the United States (Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law #304; 1928), by Schuyler C. Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The City for the People: or, The Municipalization of the City Government and of Local Franchises (Philadelphia: C. F. Taylor, ca. 1900), by Frank Parsons
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Municipal Year Book (first and only issue we know of for this series; New York: Engineering News Pub. Co., 1902), ed. by M. N. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Local Problems, Libertarian Solutions (1978), by William D. Burt (illustrated HTML at amatecon.com)
• Newer Ideals of Peace, by Jane Addams (HTML at Brock)

• Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters (revised edition originally published 1986; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by John M. Allswang (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• The Alabama Municipal Journal (partial serial archives)

• Planning and Zoning in the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1961), by Beverley J. Pooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Land Use (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, c2012), by Christian Turner (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)

• The Code of the City of Montgomery: Prepared in Pursuance of an Order of the City Council of Montgomery (Montgomery, AL: Gaines and Smith, 1861), by Montgomery (Ala.), ed. by John W. A. Sanford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook for the City Governing Body: Cities of the Third Class (third edition, c1959), by League of Kansas Municipalities (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Forms of Municipal Government (1992), by New Jersey State Commission on County and Municipal Government (PDF files with commentary at njstatelib.org)

• Urban Operations Research (online edition, 1999), by Richard C. Larson and Amedeo R. Odoni (illustrated HTML at MIT)
• Local Problems, Libertarian Solutions (1978), by William D. Burt (illustrated HTML at amatecon.com)

• Federal Response to Domestic Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction-Training for First Responders: Hearing Before the Military Research and Development Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held March 21, 1998 (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States House Committee on National Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plague of Strangers: Social Groups and the Origins of City Services in Cincinnati, 1819-1870 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Alan I Marcus (PDF at Ohio State)

• Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America (1999), by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• An Introduction to State and Local Public Finance (c2000), by Thomas A. Garrett and John C. Leatherman (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• Revised Ordinances of the City of Galesburg, by Galesburg (Ill.) (page images at MOA)

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• Modern Forms of Municipal Government (1992), by New Jersey State Commission on County and Municipal Government (PDF files with commentary at njstatelib.org)

• Liberal Party Municipal Program for 1945, by Liberal Party of New York State (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Plague of Strangers: Social Groups and the Origins of City Services in Cincinnati, 1819-1870 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Alan I Marcus (PDF at Ohio State)

• Galveston: A Business Corporation (Topeka City Club reprint from McClure's, 1906), by George Kibbe Turner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jon C. Teaford (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools, by Jeannie Oakes, Molly Selvin, Lynn A. Karoly, and Gretchen Gulton (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role of Acknowledgement in the Primary Communication Process (1995), by Blaise Cronin (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1986), ed. by Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell, and Cedric D. J. Pugh (PDF in Australia)

• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier (HTML at UC Press)

• The Many Faces of Human Security: Case Studies of Seven Countries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Keith Muloongo, Roger Kibasomba, and Jemima Njeri Kariri (PDF at issafrica.org)

• Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Alexander Betts (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Press)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Negro Leadership Class (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Daniel C. Thompson, contrib. by Martin Luther King (page images at HathiTrust)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), ed. by Francisco J. Pichón, Jorge E. Uquillas, and John Frechione (page images at Pitt)

• Development Projects in the Sudan: An Analysis of Their Reports With Implications for Research and Training in Arid Land Management, by Heinz-Ulrich Thimm (HTML at UNU Press)

• Alternative Agriculture (1989), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (multiple formats at NAP)

• African Agriculture: The Critical Choices (c1990), ed. by Hamid Ait Amara and Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua (HTML at UNU Press)

• Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies #11; 1984), by Robert C. Marshall (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Lost Territories of the Republic (Les Territoires Perdus de la Republique) (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), by Emmanuel Brenner, trans. by Robert Chodos and Susan Joanis, contrib. by Martine Trink Rubinstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Roberta Gilchrist (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Modernity and Housing (originally published 1993; open access edition with new preface, ca. 2018), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files at MIT)

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