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

Informationen zum Autor Philip J. Ethington is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California. Klappentext A new look at how the issues of concern in the public sphere were influenced by journalism and political organizing in American cities in the second half of the 19th century. Zusammenfassung Challenges the idea that American urban politics is the expression of social-group community experience, maintaining, instead, that identities of race, class, ethnicity and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of political mobilization and journalistic discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Philip J. Ethington, Ethington Philip J.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2001
• EAN: 9780520230019
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23001-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, California, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political science & theory, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Urban communities, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government