Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906

by Barbara Berglund

Book Overview

Choice Outstanding Title

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700617221
• ISBN13: 9780700617227
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"