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The public and its possibilities : triumphs and tragedies in the American City /
Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: The Public and Its Possibilities
- Introduction: Liberalism and the Civic Strand in the 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 a Commercial Republic: Market Transformation and the Free Labor Ideal, 1812-1873
- The Short, Strange Career of Laissez-Faire: Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture in the Gilded Age
- Popular Culture, Political Culture: Building a Democratic Public
- 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.