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Name: Making San Francisco American
Author: Barbara Berglund

📘 Making San Francisco American by Barbara Berglund

This book attempts to explain how the racially mixed and roughly egalitarian culture of mining-era SF was gradually molded into something acceptable to “cultured” Americans – both to the nouveau riche of the West who wanted to build a city acceptable to the East, and to those from the East who were flooding into SF. Started as a PhD thesis, and reads like one.

First publish date: 2007

Authors: Barbara Berglund

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