The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1861
Author: Henry G. Langley
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Published: 2017-01-21
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780243105144
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 0520906063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jason Kaufman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003-08-07
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780195148589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American history. In the forty years between the Civil War and the onset of World War I, more than half of all Americans participated in clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies. Today this period is held up as a model for how we might revitalize contemporary civil society. But was America's associational culture really as communal as has been assumed? What if these much-admired voluntary organizations served parochial concerns rather than the common good? Jason Kaufman sets out to dispel many of the myths about the supposed civic-mindedness of "joining" while bringing to light the hidden lessons of associationalism's history. Relying on deep archival research in city directories, club histories, and membership lists, Kaufman shows that organizational activity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolved largely around economic self-interest rather than civic engagement. And far from spurring concern for the collective good, fraternal societies, able to pick and choose members at will, fostered exclusion and further exacerbated the competitive interests of a society divided by race, class, ethnicity, and religion. Tracing both the rise and the decline of American associational life - a decline that began immediately after World War I, much earlier than previously thought - Kaufman argues persuasively that the end of fraternalism was a good thing. Illuminating both broad historical shifts - immigration, urbanization, and the disruptions of war, among them - and smaller, overlooked contours, such as changes in the burial and life insurance industries, Kaufman has written a bracing revisionist history. Eloquently rebutting those hailing America's associational past and calling for a return to old-style voluntarism, For the Common Good? will change the terms of debate about the history - and the future - of American civil society."--Publisher's description.
Author: Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9780804738835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-02-14
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 0520948068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.
Author: Henry G. Langley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9781333113612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1862: Embracing a General Directory of Residents and Business Directory; Also a Directory of Streets, Public Offices, Etc;, And a New Map of the City and County W These Pianos have taken the first premium wherever and whenever Exhibited in competition With the best makers of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Among the Judges were gottschalk, wm. Mason, H. A. Wollenhaupt, and other Musical Celebrities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Henry G. Langley
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 712
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