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Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century

Ryan, Mary P.

Year: c1997.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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Frontmatter

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Public Realm to Civic Warfare

PART ONE Heterogeneous Compounds and Kaleidoscopic Varieties: Creating a Democratic Public, 1825-1849

CHAPTER 1 People's Places

CHAPTER 2 The Performance of People in Association

CHAPTER 3 Public Meetings and teh "Principles of Pure Democracy"

PART TWO The Interregnum, 1850-1865

CHAPTER 4 Civil Wars in the Cities

PART THREE "The Huge Conglomerate Mass": Democracy Contained and Continued, 1866-1880

CHAPTER 5 The "Vague and Vast Harmony" of People in Space

CHAPTER 6 The People in Ceremony: Multiply, Divide, Explode, Transcend

CHAPTER 7 Publicity and Democratic Practice

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Civic wars : democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Mary P. Ryan.

Author:

Ryan, Mary P

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Civic wars : democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Mary P. Ryan.
Ryan, Mary P
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.

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Subject Headings:

• Political participation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Democracy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• City and town life -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
• New Orleans (La.) -- Politics and government
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- Politics and government
• New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- To 1898

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