LEADER 04593nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910456291703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-12809-7 010 $a9786613531971 010 $a1-4399-0212-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000012596 035 $a(EBL)547416 035 $a(OCoLC)613192853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000426421 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11305492 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426421 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10389824 035 $a(PQKB)11546143 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC547416 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15429 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL547416 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386181 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL353197 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000012596 100 $a20090914d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe public and its possibilities$b[electronic resource] $etriumphs and tragedies in the American City /$fJohn D. Fairfield 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 225 1 $aUrban life, landscape, and policy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4399-0211-9 311 $a1-4399-0210-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface: The Public and Its Possibilities -- Introduction: Liberalism and the Civic Strand in the American Past -- Civic Aspirations and Liberal Values -- An Urban Thesis -- Civic Aspirations and Market Development in a Long Age of Revolution -- Democratizing the Republican Ideal of Citizenship: Virtue, Interests, and the Citizen-Proprietor in the Revolutionary Era -- Creating Citizens in a Commercial Republic: Market Transformation and the Free Labor Ideal, 1812-1873 -- The Short, Strange Career of Laissez-Faire: Liberal Reformers and Genteel Culture in the Gilded Age -- Popular Culture, Political Culture: Building a Democratic Public -- The Democratic Public in City and Nation: The Jacksonian City and the Limits of Antislavery -- The Democratic Public Discredited: The New York City Draft Riots and Urban Reconstruction, 1850-1872 -- Cultural Hierarchy and Good Government: The Democratic Public in Eclipse -- The Public in Progressivism and War -- The Republican Movement: The Rediscovery of the Public in the Progressive Era -- The Public Goes to War but Does Not Come Back -- A Democracy of Consumers -- From Economic Democracy to Social Security: The Labor Movement and the Rise of the Welfare/Warfare State -- Constructing a Consumer Culture: Redirecting Leisure from Civic Engagement to Insatiable Desire -- Private Vision, Public Resources: Mass Suburbanization and the Decline of the City -- Conclusion: The Future of the City: Civic Renewal and Environmental Politics 330 $aIn his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfield argues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests. Inspired by the revolutionary generation, nineteenth-century Americans struggled to build an economy and a culture to complement their republican institutions. But over the course of the twentieth century, a corporate economy and consumer culture undercut civic values, conflating consumer and citizen. Fairfield places the city at th 410 0$aUrban life, landscape, and policy. 606 $aCity and town life$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCommunity life$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCivic improvement$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPolitical participation$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 607 $aUnited States$xSocial policy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCity and town life$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunity life$xHistory. 615 0$aCivic improvement$xHistory. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical participation$xHistory. 676 $a307.760973 700 $aFairfield$b John D.$f1955-$0729045 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456291703321 996 $aThe public and its possibilities$92196633 997 $aUNINA