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

By Philip J. Ethington

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520230019
• ISBN13: 9780520230019
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"