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William Issel

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Publications

11

Citations

535

H-Index

10

Active since

1976

Affiliations

San Francisco State University(Current)

William Issel is an author at San Francisco State University specializing in urban history, social sciences, and urban geography.

Top concepts

Urban HistorySocial SciencesUrban GeographyPoliticsEducationHumanitiesPublic PolicyCultural HistoryHistorical GeographyModernity

Publications per year

1976–2002

11

Publications

11

The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth-Century City

William Issel, Harvey J. Graff · The American Historical Review · 1980 · 302 citations

Literary History, Urban Society, Literacy Myth +9

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950

William Issel, Robert M. Fogelson · Journal of American History · 2002 · 71 citations

New York, Social Sciences, American Literature +17

San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development

William A. Bullough, William Issel, Robert W. Cherny · Western Historical Quarterly · 1987 · 39 citations

Historical Geography, Urban Geography, Page 198 +12

The Landscape of Modernity: Essays on New York City, 1900-1940.

William Issel, David M. Ward, Olivier Zunz · Journal of American History · 1993 · 29 citations

Historical Geography, Urban Theory, Humanities +11

"Land Values, Human Values, and the Preservation of the City's Treasured Appearance": Environmentalism, Politics, and the San Francisco Freeway Revolt

William Issel · Pacific Historical Review · 1999 · 20 citations

Historical Geography, Cultural Heritage, Historical Sociology +17

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