The American city : a social and cultural history
- Title
- The American city : a social and cultural history / Daniel J. Monti, Jr.
- Published by
- Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
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- Description
- viii, 391 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Does America 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 civic life. He reconciles the views of liberal and conservative urbanists, and answers that "yes," Americans are indeed a community of believers, and that a viable and vital urban culture exists in the United States despite notions of division and apathy. In a series of portraits of small, medium-sized, and large American cities, Monti reveals urban America in a positive light, a place where people work together for the common good."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Contents
- 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"
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.