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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 urban life. He reconciles liberal and conservative viewpoints and responds unequivocally, that 'yes', Americans are indeed a community of believers and that a viable and vital civic culture exists in the United States despite notions of difference and apathy. Civic life in the US has been based on a set of rules predicated on prosperity and order as guiding principles to achieve a balance between private lives and the larger public good. "The American City" brings this notion forward and sheds a positive light on a world that focuses more often on the problems as opposed to the parts that work.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: American City - A Social and Cultural History
• Author: Daniel Monti
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9781557869180
• ISBN: 1557869189
• ID: 05081288
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 634 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. August 1999

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