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The American City: Civic Culture in Sociohistorical Perspective

ISBN: 978-1-55786-918-0
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400 pages
August 1999, Wiley-Blackwell
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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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