Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
triumphs and tragedies in the American city |
Author: |
FairfieldJohn D., 1955- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Philadelphia |
Published: |
Temple University Press; |
Year of Publication: |
2010 |
Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 355 p.). |
Series: |
Urban life, landscape, and policy |
Subject: |
Political participation - History - United States - |
Subject: |
Political culture - History - United States - |
Subject: |
Popular culture - History - United States - |
Subject: |
Civic improvement - History - United States - |
Subject: |
Community life - History - United States - |
Subject: |
City and town life - History - United States - |
Subject: |
United States - Social policy - |
Subject: |
United States - Politics and government - |
Subject: |
United States - Intellectual life - |
Subject: |
United States - Social conditions - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781439902127/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9781439902127electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9781439902103hbk. |
ISBN: |
1439902100hbk. |
ISBN: |
9781439902110pbk. |
Content Note: |
Preface: The Public and Its Possibilities -- Introduction: Liberalism and the Civic Strand inthe American Past -- Civic Aspirations and Liberal Values -- An Urban Thesis -- Civic Aspirations and Market Development in a Long Age of Revolution -- Democratizing the Republican Ideal of Citizenship: Virtue, Interests, and the Citizen-Proprietor in the Revolutionary Era -- Creating Citizens in aCommercial Republic: Market Transformation and the Free Labor Ideal, 1812-1873 -- The Short, StrangeCareer of Laissez-Faire: Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture in the Gilded Age -- Popular Culture, Political Culture: Building a DemocraticPublic -- The Democratic Public in City and Nation: The Jacksonian City and the Limits of Antislavery -- The Democratic Public Discredited: The New York City Draft Riots and Urban Reconstruction, 1850-1872 -- Cultural Hierarchy and Good Government: The Democratic Public in Eclipse -- The Public in Progressivism and War -- The Republican Movement: The Rediscovery of the Public in the Progressive Era -- The Public Goes to War but Does Not Come Back -- A Democracy of Consumers -- From Economic Democracy to Social Security: The Labor Movement and the Rise of the Welfare/Warfare State -- Constructing a Consumer Culture: Redirecting Leisure from Civic Engagement to Insatiable Desire -- Private Vision, Public Resources: Mass Suburbanization and the Decline of the City -- Conclusion: The Future of the City: Civic Renewal and Environmental Politics |