1st Edition
Signs of Change Urban Iconographies in San Francisco, 1880-1915
By Ron Robin
Copyright 1990
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1990, Signs of Change assess the people of San Francisco according to their own demonstrative standards through the visual symbols. Special attention is devoted to the visual perceptions of immigrants, those whose senses were not smothered by over-familiarity or protracted compliance with American mores. Immigration history is often studied in the concentrate exclusively... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Civic Image of the Forty-niner as "Para-History" of San Francisco
2. San Francisco Smelting Pot
3. San Francisco’s Jews and the Architecture of Symbolic Ethnicity
4. Ambivalent Heroes; Icons of Self-Image Among San Francisco’s Italians
5. Epilogue
6. Bibliographical Essay
Biography
Ron Robin
