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by Philip J. Ethington (Author) "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..." (more)
Key Phrases: shoddy aristocrats, pluralist liberalism, urban political history, San Francisco, New York, Bancroft Library (more...)
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Book 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.

About the Author
Philip J. Ethington is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

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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
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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
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