Making San Francisco American

By Barbara Berglund

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

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.