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Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906
Barbara Berglund
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Description for Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906
Paperback. Focuses on the 19th-century transformation in San Francisco from Gold Rush to earthquake to show how the city's diverse residents created a modern American city through everyday "cultural frontiers," such as restaurants, hotels, and annual fairs and expositions, among others." Num Pages: 312 pages, 39 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
The San Francisco that rose from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire was a city of rigid social stratification—a city determined to contain its diverse and disorderly rough-and-tumble past some sixty years after its acquisition by the United States. Barbara Berglund vividly describes San Francisco’s rapid evolution from Mexican outpost to crown jewel of America’s western empire, taking readers back to an earlier and more chaotic time when class definitions and social conventions were much more fluid. Berglund argues that the city’s rapid rise from a multicultural boomtown to a racially and socially stratified metropolis reflected the ... Read more
The San Francisco that rose from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire was a city of rigid social stratification—a city determined to contain its diverse and disorderly rough-and-tumble past some sixty years after its acquisition by the United States. Barbara Berglund vividly describes San Francisco’s rapid evolution from Mexican outpost to crown jewel of America’s western empire, taking readers back to an earlier and more chaotic time when class definitions and social conventions were much more fluid. Berglund argues that the city’s rapid rise from a multicultural boomtown to a racially and socially stratified metropolis reflected the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700617227
SKU
V9780700617227
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About Barbara Berglund
Barbara Berglund is assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida
Reviews for Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906
"A great book and surprising history. Berglund finds the beginnings of the city's life in unexpected places - in the boarding houses, hotels, fairs, tourist shops, and restaurants where ordinary San Franciscans from all over the world met and mingled to create an American city." - Ann Fabian, author of The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America "Should inspire ... Read more