Making San Francisco American

By Barbara Berglund

Subjects: Alltag, Ethnic relations, Kultur, Assimilation (Sociology), Elite (Social sciences), Political culture, Manners and customs, Gesellschaft, Amerikanisierung, Steden, American National characteristics, Cultuur, Social control, Social life and customs, Sociale structuur, Vergnügen, Social conditions, City and town life, History, Soziale Schichtung

Description: 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.