Title Imperial San Francisco : urban power, earthly ruin / Gray Brechin.

Imprint	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]
	©1999

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
Huell Howser California's Gold Books	F869.S353 A225 1999	Library Use Only
2nd FL Humanities Library Books	F869.S353 A225 1999 c.2	Available

Collation	xxvi, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Series	California's Gold Collection
	California studies in critical human geography ; 3
	California's Gold Collection.
	California studies in critical human geography ; 3.
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-388) and index.
Contents	Preface: The Urban Maelstrom -- Introduction: New Romes for a New World -- Foundations of Dominion -- The Pyramid of Mining -- Mythologizing Mining -- The Invisible Pyramid -- California's Classical Precedent -- The Renaissance of Mining -- The Age of Discovery, Conquest, and Fugger -- De Re Metallica -- The James Marshall Myth -- A Promised Land Plundered -- Working the Frisco 'Change -- Ralston, His Ring, and the Comstock Lode -- The Sierra Nevada Flayed -- Halting Hydraulicking -- Mining Engineers as Heralds of Empire -- Deferred Costs -- Specious Denials -- Enduring Attitudes -- Transfer Technology -- Financial Districts as Inverted Minescapes -- Water Mains and Bloodlines -- Revealing Power -- A Shrine to Water -- Roman Aqueducts -- The Spring Valley Monopoly -- San Francisco Reclaims San Mateo County -- Hermann Schussler -- William Hammond Hall and the Thirst of Golden Gate Park -- Ralston's Last Gambit -- Sharon Rises on Ralston's Fall -- Francis Griffith Newlands -- Building Burlingame -- Phantom Capital -- The Greening of San Mateo County -- Phelan Discovers a Reservoir Site -- Enhancing Real Estate Values -- Los Angeles Lurches Ahead -- San Francisco Stalls -- None Other Than Hetch Hetchy -- Michael M. O'Shaughnessy -- A Debatable Masterpiece -- Hail, the Chief! -- The Thought Shapers -- The Scott Brothers: Arms and the Overland Monthly -- Commemorating the Soldiers of an Unnamed War -- San Francisco Bay as Pacific Launchpad -- The Union Iron Works -- The Overland Monthly -- Spanish-American War.
Note	This book was donated to the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University as part of the California's Gold Collection which also includes all of the individual episodes, notes and files from the television series hosted and produced by Huell Howser which aired statewide on all PBS affiliates from 1991 - 2011.
Subject	Elite (Social sciences) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Pacific Area -- History.
	Human ecology -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.
	Land use -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.
	San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Biography.
	San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions.
	Pacific Area -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN	0520215680 (alk. paper)
	9780520215689 (alk. paper)
	0520229029 (pbk.)
	9780520229020 (pbk.)

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