"When the Mail-Plane Flies Over":
Space, Civic Identity,
and Small-Town Society

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Written for Professor Mary Ryan's seminar on "Civic Spaces in North America," Autumn 1996.

1. Introduction
2. Modernity and Small Towns
3. Small-Town Public Space
4. Nodes and Networks
5. Bureaucratic Communitarianism
6. Small-Town Civil Society
7. Conclusion

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