The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900

The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900
ISBN-10
052092746X
ISBN-13
9780520927469
Category
Social Science
Pages
480
Language
English
Published
2001-07-06
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Philip J. Ethington

Description

Philip J. Ethington challenges the assumptions of several decades of urban history that treat American urban politics as the expression of social-group community experience. Instead, he maintains in The Public City, social-group identities of race, class, ethnicity, and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of political mobilization and journalistic discourse.

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