The Public City
Subtitle: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780520230019
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Local government; Political science & theory; Urban communities; c 1800 to c 1900; Politics and government; Political culture; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; California; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Sociology - Urban; History / General; History; 19th century; Political participation; San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.)
First sentence: 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.