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Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century [Repost]
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Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century by Mary P. Ryan
English | November 18, 1998 | ISBN: 0520216601 | 394 pages | PDF | 38 MB
English | November 18, 1998 | ISBN: 0520216601 | 394 pages | PDF | 38 MB
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 America enjoyed in the 1820s and 1840s was irrevocably damaged by the Civil War. Civic life rebounded after the War but was, in Ryan's words, "less public, less democratic, and more visibly scarred by racial bigotry."