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  • The public and its possibilities = triumphs and tragedies in the American city /
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    Title/Author: The public and its possibilities/ John D. Fairfield.
    Reminder of title: triumphs and tragedies in the American city /
    Author: Fairfield, John D.,
    Published: Philadelphia :Temple University Press, : 2010.,
    Description: 1 online resource (xii, 355 p.).
    [NT 15003449]: 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
    Subject: Political participation - History. - United States -
    Subject: United States - Economic policy - 1981-1993 -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781439902127/Full text available:
    ISBN: 9781439902127 (electronic bk.)
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