The Public and Its Possibilities Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City /
Fairfield, John D., 1955-
The Public and Its Possibilities Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City / [Recurso electrónico] : John D. Fairfield. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 355 p. ) - Urban life, landscape, and policy . - Urban life, landscape, and policy. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Libro Electrónico
9781439902127
Political participation--History.--United States
Political culture--History.--United States
Popular culture--History.--United States
Civic improvement--History.--United States
Community life--History.--United States
City and town life--History.--United States
United States--Social policy.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Intellectual life.
United States--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
HT123 / .F28 2010
307.760973
The Public and Its Possibilities Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City / [Recurso electrónico] : John D. Fairfield. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 355 p. ) - Urban life, landscape, and policy . - Urban life, landscape, and policy. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Libro Electrónico
9781439902127
Political participation--History.--United States
Political culture--History.--United States
Popular culture--History.--United States
Civic improvement--History.--United States
Community life--History.--United States
City and town life--History.--United States
United States--Social policy.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Intellectual life.
United States--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
HT123 / .F28 2010
307.760973
2251-8215
