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100 1 $aEthington, Philip J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93099493
245 14 $aThe public city :$bthe political construction of urban life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 /$cPhilip J. Ethington.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
300 $axvi, 464 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The public city: American political culture in nineteenth-century San Francisco -- 1. The agony of authority: People, public, party, and power, 1849-1859 -- 2. Republican terror: The origins of Vigilante movements of 1851 and 1856 -- 3. Though the heavens fall: The Vigilante movement culture of 1856 -- 4. Race and reaction: Civil War political mobilization -- 5. The postwar reconstruction of the urban public sphere -- 6. A language of politics in a politics of class: The Workingmen's Party of California -- 7. The institutional preconditions of progressivism -- 8. Progressivism as the politics of needs: The mobilization of group identities -- Conclusion: A new public sphere and a new government.
520 $aThe 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. Nineteenth-century Americans relied on the Roman and Enlightenment models of the "public sphere" as a forum for debate and self-government. Drawing on speeches, pamphlets, newspapers, and census and electoral data, the book reinterprets the city's turbulent history.
520 8 $aChallenging 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.
520 8 $aNew methods of political mobilization unleashed by the Civil War resulted in the death of republican liberalism and birth of pluralist liberalism, and in the transformation from a political conception of society to a social conception of politics in the years from 1850 to 1900.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPolitical participation$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116874
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xSocial conditions.
852 00 $bglx$hJS1437$i.E84 1994