Description - Civic Wars by Mary P. Ryan
In this retelling of a key period of American political and social history, Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class and gender conflict in the 19th-century city. Basing her analysis on three cities - New York, New Orleans and San Francisco - Ryan finds the roots of America's resilient democratic culture in the urban conflicts that found expression in the social movements, riots, and celebrations that punctuated daily life in these urban centres. The text illustrates the ways in which 19th-century cities were as full of cultural differences and as fractured by social and economic changes as any metropolis today.
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