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The American city : a social and cultural history

Title
  1. The American city : a social and cultural history / Daniel J. Monti, Jr.
Published by
  1. Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Author
  1. Monti, Daniel J., Jr., 1949-

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Description
  1. viii, 391 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Cities and towns -- United States -- History
  2. City and town life -- United States -- History
  3. Community life -- United States -- History
  4. Sociology, Urban -- United States
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-383) and index.