- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; New Ed edition (17 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520230019
- ISBN-13: 978-0520230019
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,611,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An impressive work based upon extensive research in qualitative and quantitative sources, the book successfully engages a variety of complex interpretative issues at a high level of sophistication. 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, California history, and the history of American politics in the nineteenth century." Pacific Historical Review "This ambitious work deserves close attention from urban historians, political historians, and political scientists...[T]he questions it asks, the wealth of information it presents on a crucial period for urban political development, and the ways in which it reframes the urban political contest opens the way for a renewed debate on urban politics that has been mired too long in bosses versus reformers and the social-group paradigm of political development. Ethington is to be congratulated for his achievements here." Maureen A. Flanagan, Michigan State University, on the Internet "The book is well grounded in the sources, including election data, and it is especially suggestive in integrating developments in the realms of gender and news media into the overall analysis. The author writes clearly ... the book is an essential addition for all upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections in American, western, and urban history." D.F. Choice "Practically every page presents some new insight or challenges some accepted interpretation...this is required reading for everyone interested in American politics in the latter half of the nineteenth century." Robert W. Cherny, American Historical Review "Philip Ethington has given us an important and provocative study of the changing political culture of early San Francisco and, more generally, of nineteenth-century urban America...'The Public City' is a book that needs to be reckoned with. It makes an important argument for the primacy of political culture. It highlights the discursive role of institutions such as the press in linking and shaping state/civil society relations. It effortlessly blends qualitative and quantitative approaches. And it deepens our understanding of early San Francisco political history. These are no small achievements." Steven Erie, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly "An impressive work based upon extensive research...the book successfully engages a variety of complex interprative issues at a high level of sophistication...his provocative conclusions will stimulate discussion and debate." William Issel, Pacific Historic Review
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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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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
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