Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century.(Review)

From: CLIO | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Kelley, Wyn | Copyright information

Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii + 376 pages.

Mary P. Ryan has built an unshakable reputation out of her groundbreaking work in feminist history. With Womanhood in America, From Colonial Times to the Present (1975), Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (1981), The Empire of the Mother: American Writing About...

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