The Public and Its Possibilities - Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City

Informationen zum Autor John D. Fairfield is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Institute for Politics and Public Life at Xavier University and the author of The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937. Klappentext John D. Fairfield is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Institute for Politics and Public Life at Xavier University and the author of The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937. Zusammenfassung Throughout U.S. history! our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The Public and Its Possibilities Introduction: Liberalism and the Civic Strand in the American Past Civic Aspirations and Liberal Values An Urban ThesisPart I. Civic Aspirations and Market Development in a Long Age of Revolution 1.Democratizing the Republican Ideal of Citizenship: Virtue, Interests, and the Citizen-Proprietor in the Revolutionary Era Seaport Cities: Crucibles of Market and Public The People Out of Doors and the Imperial Crisis A More Democratic Public: Consumer Boycotts Politicize the Household The Threat of Enslavement and the Need for Virtue: The Unifying Myth of the American Revolution Virtue and Vice in an Overheated Market Redeeming the Revolution: Virtues or Mechanisms? Citizen-Proprietors and the Democratization of Competence Revolutionary Legacies, Democratic Futures 2. Creating Citizens in a Commercial Republic: Market 33 Transformation and the Free Labor Ideal, 1812–1873 The Origins of the Free Labor Ideal The Market Revolution and the Public Purpose Labor Politics in the Jacksonian City: Unjust Government and a Conspiracy to Enslave A Crippled Democracy: Jacksonian Fears and Whig Paternalism The Free Labor Ideology and the Transformation of Northern Whiggery Positive Liberty: Turning Slaves into Citizens The Limits of Radical Republicanism 3. The Short, Strange Career of Laissez-Faire: Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture in the Gilded Age Big Business and Small Politics in the Gilded Age Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture The Liberal Reformers’ Encounter with the City Civic Murder: Liberal Reformers and Public Opinion “This Word Culture”: An Industrial Tragedy at PullmanPart II. Popular Culture, Political Culture: Building a Democratic Public 4. The Democratic Public in City and Nation: The Jacksonian City and the Limits of Antislavery Constructing a Public Realm In the Streets: Law and the Public Realm To the Park: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Jacksonian Public Popular Culture, Political Culture Young America and Democratic Culture The Republic of the Streets and Fields The Astor Place Riot Fatal Flaw: Young America and Negrophobia Cultural Laissez-Faire versus the Evangelical United Front Antislavery: Passion and Rationality in the Antebellum Public Lincoln’s Rhetorical Revolution 5. The Democratic Public Discredited: The New York City Draft Riots and Urban Reconstruction, 1850–1872 “The Most Radical City in America” Nativism and the Erosion of Municipal Autonomy The New York City Draft Riots Draconian Justice: Reconstructing New York City The Spectacular Rise and Precipitous Fall of Boss Tweed Postwar Republicanism: Labor Revolt and Metropolitan Capital Retrenchment and Reform 6. Cultural Hierarchy and Good Government: The Democratic Public in Eclipse Highbrow/Lowbrow and an Incompetent Citizenry Don’t Get Out the Vote Municipal Counterrevolution: Dillon’s Rule and the Benevolent Expert Domesticating the City Civic Vertigo: The City Biological and Pathological The Degeneration of Popular Politics Mob Mind, Befuddled PublicPart III. The Public in Progressivism and War 7. The Republican Moment: The Rediscovery of the Public in the Progressive Era The City Beautiful and Intelligent The Georgists and the City Republic Democracy as Cooperative Inquiry: The Social Centers Movemen...

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• Autori: John D Fairfield, John D. Fairfield
• Editore: Temple University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.02.2012
• EAN: 9781439902110
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0211-0
• Pagine: 368
• Serie: Urban Life, Landscape and Poli; Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura