Civic Wars
Subtitle: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 18, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780520216600
Subjects: Gender studies; Political structures: democracy; Social history; Urban communities; c 1800 to c 1900; Political Science; Political Process - General; History - General History; History: American; USA; Sociology - Urban; History / General; Government - State & Provincial
First sentence: Visiting New York City in 1849, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley fumbled for words to capture a place "unlike every city ever beheld before."