The American city : a social and cultural history
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The American city : a social and cultural history
Blackwell Publishers, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9781557869173
Description
Does American have a sense of community and a vital civic culture?Are disparate groups capable of uniting as a single people who can call themselves Americans? Do Americans help each other for the common good?Daniel J. Monti, Jr. addresses these questions in this wide-ranging volume spanning three hundred years of American urban life. He reconciles liberal and conservative viewpoints and responds unequivocally, that "yes", Americans are indeed a community of believers and that a viable and vital civic culture exists in the United States despite notions of difference and apathy. Civic life in the US has been based on a set of rules predicated on prosperity and order as guiding principles to achieve a balance between private lives and the larger public good. The American City brings this notion forward and sheds a positive light on a world that focuses more often on the problems as opposed to the parts that work.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. What Makes the Good Society? 2. We Are a Bourgeois People Who Made an Urban World. 3. On Small Towns and Their 'Citified' Ways. 4. The Civic Culture of American Cities. 5. Belonging and Sharing. 6. Piety and Tolerance. 7. Private Lives and Public Worlds. 8. Doing Well by Doing Good. 9. Some Sort of Americans. 10. Articles of Faith: Personal Adornment as a Communal Accomplishment. 11. Private Entitlements as a Public Good. 12. Some Concluding Observations About the "Good Old Days". Further Reading. Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9781557869180
Description
In this book Daniel Monti reconciles liberal and conservative viewpoints to claim that Americans are indeed a community of believers and that a viable and vital civic culture exists in the United States despite notions of difference and apathy.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. What Makes the Good Society?.
2. We Are a Bourgeois People Who Made an Urban World.
3. On Small Towns and Their 'Citified' Ways.
4. The Civic Culture of American Cities.
5. Belonging and Sharing.
6. Piety and Tolerance.
7. Private Lives and Public Worlds.
8. Doing Well by Doing Good.
9. Some Sort of Americans.
10. Articles of Faith: Personal Adornment as a Communal Accomplishment.
11. Private Entitlements as a Public Good.
12. Some Concluding Observations About the "Good Old Days".
Further Reading.
Index.
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