Civic Wars

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Civic Wars is written by Mary P. Ryan and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520216601 (ISBN 10) and 9780520216600 (ISBN 13).

Historian Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the 19th-century city. Using as examples New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco, Ryan illustrates the way in which American cities of the 19th century were as full of cultural differences and as fractured by social and economic changes as any metropolis today. 41 photos.