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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11913513.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-383) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 391 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1557869170 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1557869189 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "307.76/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns United States History.".
- catalog subject "City and town life United States History.".
- catalog subject "Community life United States History.".
- catalog subject "HT123 .M635 1999".
- catalog subject "Sociology, Urban United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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."".
- catalog title "The American city : a social and cultural history / Daniel J. Monti, Jr.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".