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Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 1 by Donald Duke presents a historical and pictorial survey of the electric railways operating around San Francisco Bay from World War II to the present time Features the Bay Area Rapid Transit the streetcar operations of the East Bay Transit Co the Red Trains of Southern Pacific commuter rail operation known as the Interurban Electric Railway and the transbay services of the Key System An authoritative and richly illustrated work on an oftenignored subject in the world of electric service Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 1 by Donald Duke is a musthave for the historian and fan of Bay Area electric railways
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The San Francisco that rose from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire was a city of rigid social stratificationa city determined to contain its diverse and disorderly roughandtumble past some sixty years after its acquisition by the United StatesBarbara Berglund vividly describes San Franciscos rapid evolution from Mexican outpost to crown jewel of Americas western empire taking readers back to an earlier and more chaotic time when class definitions and social conventions were much more fluid Berglund argues that the citys rapid rise from a multicultural boomtown to a racially and socially stratified metropolis reflected the careful efforts of a nascent elite to order its inhabitants through political and cultural meansBerglund analyzes the cultural spaces that showcased the contests that would determine the social order and who defined it The books central chapters provide snapshots of the microworkings of power on five key cultural frontiers restaurants hotels and boardinghouses places of amusement ranging from the brothels of the Barbary Coast to the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Science Chinatowns tourist terrain the Mechanics Institutes annual fairs and the 1894 California Midwinter International Expositionthe first such expo held west of Chicago and an imagebuilding opportunity for the citys elitesBy focusing on the role of cultural frontiers in the urban west Berglund offers a new take on western history that explores the role of marketdriven cultural institutions demonstrating that the market was as important as the state in structuring power relationships in nineteenthcentury imperial America She shows that control over meanings ascribed to race class and genderespecially those generated in the citys cultural spaceswas critical to the incorporation of San Francisco into the fabric of the American nation
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A Year of Mud and Gold is a collection of over two hundred excerpts from letters and diaries of ordinary men and women caught up in the rapid transformation of San Francisco during its gold rush heyday 184950 Together these accounts render a rich mosaic of San Franciscos metamorphosis from a small Mexican outpost into a roughandtumble boomtown filled with gamblers and prostitutes evangelists and entrepreneursmen women and children from all parts of the world arriving in California with the dream of striking it richnbspThe correspondents come from a variety of economic and social backgrounds Some are barely literate while others write as well as the finest authors of nineteenthcentury travel literature Their writings address a broad range of concerns from business prospects and consumer prices to social mores and popular amusements The letters and diaries also hold clues to processes central to frontier history the Americanization of Hispanic California the stresses that migration placed on individuals and families the fluidity of boomtown economies and the nature of gender and race relations in an urban population of immigrants
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Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods such innovations as photography lithography and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenthcentury society The proliferation of visual prints ephemera spectacles and technologies transformed public values and perceptions and its legacy was as significant as the print revolution that preceded it Consuming Identities explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities San Francisco the revolving door of the gold rush In their correspondence diaries portraits and reminiscences thousands of migrants to the city by the Bay demonstrated that visual media constituted a central means by which people navigated the bewildering host of changes taking hold around them in the second half of the nineteenth century from the spread of capitalism and class formation to immigration and urbanization Images themselves were inextricably associated with these worldchanging forces they were commodities but as representations of people they also possessed special cultural qualities that gave them new meaning and significance Visual media transcended traditional boundaries of language and culture that divided diverse groups within the same urban space From the 1848 conquest of California and the gold discovery to the disastrous earthquake and fire of 1906 San Francisco anticipated broader cultural transformations in the commodification implementation and popularity of images For the citys inhabitants and sojourners an array of imagery came to mediate intersect with and even constitute social interaction in a world where virtual reality was becoming normative
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Strasbourg 2011 1 Volume1 Broché collé Format in4 297 x 21 cm 572 gr 157 pages très illustrées Létude de la monnaie est sans doute lun des domaines les plus ardus et en Alsace le problème de la langue accroît considérablement les difficultés Schrott und Korn Münzmeister Schlagschatz Wardein sont autant de termes techniques qui peuvent dérouter Il en va de même pour ce qui concerne les dénominations que pouvait être un Guldener un Heller ou un Oerthel A quoi pouvaient correspondre ces monnaies En lisant danciens documents et parfois même des textes littéraires en faisant des recherches darchives on est souvent confronté à des termes dont le sens nous échappe Engagé depuis de très longues années dans la recherche historique lauteur a souvent été confronté aux problèmes monétaires Il a déjà publié plusieurs articles traitant de ces questions Dans cet ouvrage conçu comme un manuel il donne ici quelques réponses portant sur une longue période du début du Moyen Age jusquen 1870 On trouvera des glossairesoù les termes techniques sont définis les noms des monnaies expliqués les frappes localisées On trouvera également des approches réglementaires et chronologiques pour comprendre comment à travers le temps et selon les monétaires des systèmes différents ont été élaborés ref ya67043 fav10670
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Dick Evans captures the pulse of life in the Mission District the San Francisco neighborhood known for its murals and Latin American cultureand more recently for its rapid gentrification Intimate colorful images depict a place filled with diverse residents stately Victorian houses handpainted store signs Carnaval dancers Día de los Muertos celebrants political activists and its namesake Mission Dolores here juxtaposed against portraits of Native people and indigenous cultural objects Poetry and quotations from Mission residents are interspersed throughout deepening viewers immersion into this community But at the heart of the book is the Missions famous public art works that depict Latin American culture resistance to political oppression passion for environmental justice and outrage at gentrification Evanss photos highlight the growing threat to the neighborhoods character but they also reveal the many changes that have shaped the neighborhood into its vivacious presentday identity
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An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death whether its the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California which scientists know is inevitable Yet despite rapid advances in earthquake science seismologists still cant predict when the Big One will hit Predicting the Unpredictable is the first book to explain why exploring the fact and fiction behind the scienceand pseudoscienceof earthquake prediction Susan Hough traces the continuing quest by seismologists to forecast the time location and magnitude of future quakesa quest fraught with controversies spectacular failures and occasional apparent successes She brings readers into the laboratory and out into the field with the pioneers who have sought to develop reliable methods based on observable phenomena such as small earthquake patterns and electromagnetic signals Hough describes attempts that have raised hopes only to collapse under scrutiny as well as approaches that seem to hold future promise She recounts stories of strange occurrences preceding massive quakes such as changes in well water levels and mysterious ground fogs She also ventures to the fringes of pseudoscience to consider ideas outside the scientific mainstream from the enduring belief that animals can sense impending earthquakes to amateur YouTube videos purporting to show earthquake lights prior to large quakes This book is an entertaining and accessible foray into the world of earthquake prediction one that illuminates the unique challenges of predicting the unpredictable
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In a book that is must reading for those interested in the future of the american West Kirkus Reviews Bingham shows how ranchers in Colorados San Luis Valleyalong with a Rhodesian expert a Canadian billionaire and a Hindu mathematiciancoped with an unfolding environmental disaster the rapid desertification of their land
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First edition of this welldone pictorial of the Key System the streetcar and railroad line that linked San Francisco Oakland and San Jose and enabled rapid suburban growth through its transbay ferry and electric railway service Long before BART the Bay area was linked by streetcars and ferries through the prescient vision of Francis Marion Borax Smith The photos all with informative captions show all eras from the earliest street cars to the invasion of the buses 120 pages
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