After the Shock City
Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7308560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher M Sterba (San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 493-494 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaaa280 |
| OpenAlex | W3088176324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
In After the Shock City, Tom Hulme challenges historical interpretations of citizenship and urban modernity in the twentieth century. Comparing Manchester, England, and Chicago, Illinois, Hulme argues that efforts by elites to “mould a sense of citizenship” through civic pride did not end with World War I, but continued through the 1920s and 1930s (p. 9). These activities reflected a pragmatism and multilayered understanding of identity, informed by a “transnational communication” that linked such figures as Louis Napoleon Parker and the Chicago school. Hulme supports this argument with close readings of civics textbooks, municipal fairs, historical pageants, and youth programs. Each effort reinforced an “ideology of urban citizenship,” with which “alliances of local government, businessmen and civic associations” targeted the working classes of their communities (pp. 46, 15). Hulme stresses critical differences between the cities. Manchester's longer histories of modern municipal government and class struggle, and Chicago's corruption and racial divisions certainly affected whatever “strategies of intervention” their city elites attempted (p. 8). Still, both cities produced narratives of progress, of overcoming the “dirty, dangerous and unhealthy” nineteenth-century past, and related discourses promoting civic participation, infrastructure, and physical health (p. 53
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‘The core’
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |