The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

This history of San Francisco from 1850 through 1900 identifies the active participation of citizens in communication, persuasion, and mobilization as the public city: the site of American political and social change. Challenging decades of scholarship that treats urban politics as the expression of social-group experience and power, the author develops the opposite thesis that social-group identities of race, class, ethnicity, and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of mobilization and journalistic discourse.Read More

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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.

  • 0520230019
  • 9780520230019
  • PJ Ethington
  • 17 July 2001
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
  • New Ed
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