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Good neighbors: the democracy of everyday life in America

By Rosenblum , Nancy Lipton

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN
9780691169439, 9781400881314, 1400881315
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2838388 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Civil society;Civil society--United States;Democra

Description

The moral principles prescribed for friendship, civil society, and democratic public life apply imperfectly to life around home, where we interact day to day without the formal institutions, rules of conduct, and means of enforcement that guide us in other settings. This work explores how encounters among neighbours create a democracy of everyday life, which has been with us since the beginning of American history and is expressed in settler, immigrant, and suburban narratives and in novels, poetry, and popular culture.

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