Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xii, 355 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781439902103
Serie:
Urban life, landscape, and policy
Inhalt:
In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfield argues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests. Inspired by the revolutionary generation, nineteenth-century Americans struggled to build an economy and a culture to complement their republican institutions. But over the course of the twentieth century, a corporate economy and consumer culture undercut civic values, conflating consumer and citizen. Fairfield places the city at the center of American experience, des
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CONTENTS; Preface: The Public and Its Possibilities; Introduction: Liberalism and the Civic Strand in the American Past; Civic Aspirations and Liberal Values; An Urban Thesis; PART I - CIVIC ASPIRATIONS AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN A LONG AGE OF REVOLUTION; 1. Democratizing the Republican Ideal of Citizenship: Virtue, Interests, and the Citizen-Proprietor in the Revolutionary Era; 2. Creating Citizens in a Commercial Republic: Market Transformation and the Free Labor Ideal, 1812- 1873; 3. The Short, Strange Career of Laissez-Faire: Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture in the Gilded Age
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PART II - POPULAR CULTURE, POLITICAL CULTURE: BUILDING A DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC4. The Democratic Public in City and Nation: The Jacksonian City and the Limits of Antislavery; 5. The Democratic Public Discredited: The New York City Draft Riots and Urban Reconstruction, 1850- 1872; 6. Cultural Hierarchy and Good Government: The Democratic Public in Eclipse; PART III - THE PUBLIC IN PROGRESSIVISM AND WAR; 7. The Republican Moment: The Rediscovery of the Public in the Progressive Era; 8. The Public Goes to War but Does Not Come Back: Requiem for a Participatory Democracy
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PART IV - A DEMOCRACY OF CONSUMERS9. From Economic Democracy to Social Security: The Labor Movement and the Rise of the Welfare/Warfare State; 10. Constructing a Consumer Culture: Redirecting Leisure from Civic Engagement to Insatiable Desire; 11. Private Vision, Public Resources: Mass Suburbanization and the Decline of the City; Conclusion: The Future of the City: Civic Renewal and Environmental Politics; The Great Unfinished Tasks of American Civilization; Private City, Public Crisis; Visions of Fear and Hope; Toward an Ecology of the City; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Public and Its Possibilities : Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Sprache:
Englisch
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