Imperial San Francisco

Author : Gray Brechin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520250087
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial San Francisco written by Gray Brechin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Imperial San Francisco" provides a myth-shattering interpretation of the hidden costs that the growth of San Francisco has exacted on its surrounding regions, presenting along the way a revolutionary new theory of urban development".--"Palo Alto Daily News". 86 photos.

Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667622730
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barbary Coast written by Herbert Asbury and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. The Barbary Coast is the chronicle of the birth of San Francisco. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.

Author : Gray Brechin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933486
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial San Francisco written by Gray Brechin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families—the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others—who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and the mass media. The story uncovered by Gray Brechin is one of greed and ambition on an epic scale. Brechin arrives at a new way of understanding urban history as he traces the connections between environment, economy, and technology and discovers links that led, ultimately, to the creation of the atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race. In a new preface, Brechin considers the vulnerability of cities in the post-9/11 twenty-first century.

Author : Judd Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial San Francisco written by Judd Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the design of the city in the decade before the Earthquake and Fire of 1906, city politics, the Burnham plan, and why the city rebuilt itself on the old order rather than adopting a new design.

Author : Teresa Grant
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758278160
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Scandal written by Teresa Grant and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Husband-and-wife British spies investigate a murder in Brussels amid a whirlwind of war and revelry in this “superb” Regency-era mystery (Historical Novel Society). Removed to glamorous Brussels in the wake of Napoleon’s escape from Elba, intelligence agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, warily partake in the country’s pleasures—lush, bucolic afternoons followed by nights filled with lavish balls. But with the Congress of Vienna in chaos and the Duke of Wellington preparing for battle, the festivities are cut short when Malcolm is sent on a perilous mission that unravels a murderous world of espionage. No one knows what the demure and respectable Lady Julia Ashton was doing at the château where Malcolm and a fellow British spy were ambushed. But now her enigmatic life has been ended by an equally mysterious death. And as the conflict with Napoleon marches toward Waterloo, and Brussels surrenders to bedlam, Suzanne and Malcolm will be plunged into the search for the truth—revealing an intricate labyrinth of sinister secrets and betrayal in which no one can be trusted . . . “A superb storyteller.” —Deanna Raybourn, New York Times–bestselling author

Author : E.E. 'Doc' Smith
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575122730
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Stars written by E.E. 'Doc' Smith and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Empire of Earth, spanning more than a thousand solar systems, is threatened by a conspiracy from within. Now, with more than three-quarters of the Galaxy ready to fall into enemy hands, the Empire is forced to call on its top-secret weapon: the renowned Circus of the Galaxy featuring the d'Alembert family, a clan of circus performers with uncanny abilities. But even these super agents may not be in time to save the Empire. The Imperial Stars is the first book in the "Family D'Alembert" series.

Author : Gray A. Brechin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial San Francisco written by Gray A. Brechin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Berglund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making San Francisco American written by Barbara Berglund and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sarah J. Moore
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188960
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire on Display written by Sarah J. Moore and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific, where the American empire could now expand after its victory in the Spanish-American War. Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the event’s expansionist and masculinist symbolism. The exposition displayed evidence—visual, spatial, geographic, cartographic, and ideological—of America’s imperial ambitions and accomplishments. Representations of the Panama Canal play a central role in Moore’s argument, much as they did at the fair itself. Embodying a manly empire of global dimensions, the canal was depicted in statues and a gigantic working replica, as well as on commemorative stamps, maps, murals, postcards, medals, and advertisements. Just as San Francisco’s rebuilding symbolized America’s will to overcome the forces of nature, the Panama Canal represented the triumph of U.S. technology and sheer determination to realize the centuries-old dream of opening a passage between the seas. Extensively illustrated, Moore’s book vividly recalls many other features of the fair, including a seventy-five-foot-tall Uncle Sam. American railroads, in their heyday in 1915, contributed a five-acre scale model of Yellowstone, complete with miniature geysers that erupted at regular intervals. A mini–Grand Canyon featured a village where some twenty Pueblo Indians lived throughout the fair. Moore interprets these visual and cultural artifacts as layered narratives of progress, civilization, social Darwinism, and manliness. Much as the globe had ostensibly shrunk with the completion of the Panama Canal, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition compressed the world and represented it in miniature to celebrate a reinvigorated, imperial, masculine, and technologically advanced nation. As San Francisco bids to host another world’s fair, in 2020, Moore’s rich analytic approach gives readers much to ponder about symbolism, American identity, and contemporary parallels to the past.

Author : Judd Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608026626
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial San Francisco written by Judd Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: