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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"An impressive book. The arguments are closely bound to the narrative, the research is monumental, the theoretical stance fertile." - Amy Bridges, American Political Science Review "Ethington demonstrates that emerging electoral strategies and marketing practices promoted civic identities that undermined formalist Victorian notions of the universal citizen. The resulting urban history brilliantly illuminates the prehistory of the postmodern city." - Thomas Bender, Lingua Franca "The author's forcefully presented arguments and his provocative conclusions will stimulate discussion and debate. The Public City is required reading for every historian interested in urban history." - William Issel, Pacific Historical Review"
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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.
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Several Spanish soldiers and their families, under the leadership of the Franciscan Father Francisco Palou, founded the town we know as San Francisco in 1776 on a site inhabited for several centuries by ancestors of the Costanoan people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shoddy aristocrats, pluralist liberalism, urban political history, urban public sphere, organizational politicians, urban political life, municipal conditions, organizational parties, popular tribunals, urban political culture, republican liberalism, vigilante movement, reform charter, piece clubs, political public sphere, urban polity, woman suffrage amendment, petty proprietors, ratification meetings, urban electorate, manuscript schedule, new political culture, vigilance committee, indispensable enemy, public city Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, Bancroft Library, Progressive Era, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Workingmen's Party of California, Huntington Library, Laura de Force Gordon, William Randolph Hearst, Denis Kearney, James Duval Phelan, San Franciscans, Knights of Labor, Sacramento Union, San Marino, Southern Pacific, City Hall, Great Upheaval, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy, Harvard University Press, Henry George, Stanford University, William Tell Coleman New!
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Several Spanish soldiers and their families, under the leadership of the Franciscan Father Francisco Palou, founded the town we know as San Francisco in 1776 on a site inhabited for several centuries by ancestors of the Costanoan people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shoddy aristocrats, pluralist liberalism, urban political history, urban public sphere, organizational politicians, urban political life, municipal conditions, organizational parties, popular tribunals, urban political culture, republican liberalism, vigilante movement, reform charter, piece clubs, political public sphere, urban polity, woman suffrage amendment, petty proprietors, ratification meetings, urban electorate, manuscript schedule, new political culture, vigilance committee, indispensable enemy, public city Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, Bancroft Library, Progressive Era, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Workingmen's Party of California, Huntington Library, Laura de Force Gordon, William Randolph Hearst, Denis Kearney, James Duval Phelan, San Franciscans, Knights of Labor, Sacramento Union, San Marino, Southern Pacific, City Hall, Great Upheaval, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy, Harvard University Press, Henry George, Stanford University, William Tell Coleman New!
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- The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Socioeconomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860-1906 by Terrence J. McDonald on 9 pages
- Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Harvard Studies in Urban History) by Peter R. Decker on 8 pages
- Working-class formation: Nineteenth-century patterns in Western Europe and the United States by Ira Katznelson on 5 pages
- The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era by Richard L. McCormick on 5 pages
- Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century (Columbia History of Urban Life) by David C. Hammack on 4 pages
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