In this Issue

Table of Contents

Articles

Did Democracy Give the United States an Edge in Primary Schooling?

Carole Shammas
pp. 315-338
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The Migration Patterns of US Female Teachers, 1860–80

Kitae Sohn
pp. 339-360
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Special Section: Public and Private Provision of Urban Public Goods

Introduction: Public and Private Provision of Urban Public Goods

Carol E. Heim
pp. 361-369
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The Privatization of Public Services in American Cities

Jessica Trounstine
pp. 371-385
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Dirty Politics: Public Employees, Private Contractors, and the Development of Nineteenth-Century Trash Collection in Pittsburgh and New Orleans

Patricia Strach, Kathleen Sullivan
pp. 387-407
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Public Interest and the Financing of Local Water Control in Qing China, 1750–1850

Wenkai He
pp. 409-430
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Paidia meets Ludus: New York City Municipal Pools and the Infrastructure of Play

Naomi Adiv
pp. 431-452
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Who Pays, Who Benefits, Who Decides?: Urban Infrastructure in Nineteenth-Century Chicago and Twentieth-Century Phoenix

Carol E. Heim
pp. 453-482
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Contributors for Volume 39, Number 3

pp. 483-484
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