The Public City

The Public City

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

by Philip J. Ethington

480 pages· 2001· ISBN 9780520927469
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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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