<p>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 <i>The Public City, </i>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. </p>

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

History

Ethington, Philip J. J.

Americas

University of California Press

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