Civic Wars by Mary P Ryan

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Traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the 19th-century city. Based on the analysis of 3 quite different cities - New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco - this title illustrates how city spaces were used, understood, and fought over by a dazzling variety of social groups and political forces.

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Civic Wars by Mary P Ryan

Traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the 19th-century city. Based on the analysis of 3 quite different cities - New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco - this title illustrates how city spaces were used, understood, and fought over by a dazzling variety of social groups and political forces.
Mary P. Ryan is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (1981; winner of the Bancroft Prize) and Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (1990).
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ISBN 13 9780520216600
ISBN 10 0520216601
Title Civic Wars
Author Mary P Ryan
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1998-11-18
Number of pages 394
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.