Making San Francisco American

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.

subjects: American National characteristics,  Assimilation (Sociology),  City and town life,  Elite (Social sciences),  Ethnic relations,  History,  Political culture,  Social conditions,  Social control,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Steden,  Sociale structuur,  Cultuur,  Soziale Schichtung,  Gesellschaft,  Vergnügen,  Amerikanisierung,  Alltag,  Kultur,  National characteristics, american,  San francisco (calif.), social life and customs,  San francisco (calif.), social conditions,  United states, ethnic relations

Places: California,  San Francisco,  San Francisco (Calif.)

Times: 19th century,  20th century