San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City - Softcover

Lotchin, Roger W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252066316 ISBN 13: 9780252066313

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1997

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Book by Lotchin Roger W

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Reseña del editor:

Now back in print with a new introduction by the author, this is the classic study of America's most admired instant city, from its days as a sleepy Mexican village, through the Gold Rush and into its establishment as a major international port. Roger Lotchin examines the urbanizing influences in San Francisco and compares these to other urban centers, doing so against a colorful backdrop of opium dens and other sinful institutions. This "almost shamefully readable book" will be of "dramatic interest to anyone concerned with American history, American cities, or--more fundamentally--the American character." -- The New Republic "Comprehensive and absorbing. . . . Roger Lotchin's prose style is brilliant, his research staggering, and his conclusions thought-provoking. This is urban history at its best." -- Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University

Biografía del autor:

KATHLEEN GREGORY KLEIN is the author of the award-winning book The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre (1988, rev. ed. forthcoming in 1995) and editor of Women Times Three: Writers, Detectives, Readers (forthcoming), as well as numerous articles on detective fiction. She teaches English and Women's Studies at Southern Connecticut State University.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0252066316
• ISBN 13: 9780252066313
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440