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Civic Wars

Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century

Civic Wars( )
Author: Ryan, Mary P.
ISBN:978-0-520-20441-6
Publication Date:Jun 1997
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $85.00
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Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the nineteenth-century city in this ambitious retelling of a key period of American political and social history. Basing her analysis on three quite different cities--New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco--Ryan illustrates how city spaces were used, understood, and fought over by a dazzling variety of social groups and political forces. She finds that the democratic exuberance...
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