Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of SupervisorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year ....
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of SupervisorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year ...
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of SupervisorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
The Children of Chinatown
Author: Wendy RousePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898589
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.
San Francisco Municipal Reports ...
Author: San Francisco (Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
San Francisco Municipal Reports
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of SupervisorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Driven by Fear
Author: Guenter B RissePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, environment, morality, and citizenship entwined and played out. Guenter B. Risse places this forgotten institution within an emotional climate dominated by widespread public dread and disgust. In Driven by Fear, he analyzes the unique form of stigma generated by San Franciscans. Emotional states like xenophobia and racism played a part. Yet the phenomenon also included competing medical paradigms and unique economic needs that encouraged authorities to protect the city's reputation as a haven of health restoration. As Risse argues, public health history requires an understanding of irrational as well as rational motives. To that end he delves into the spectrum of emotions that drove extreme measures like segregation and isolation and fed psychological, ideological, and pragmatic urges to scapegoat and stereotype victims--particularly Chinese victims--of smallpox, leprosy, plague, and syphilis. Filling a significant gap in contemporary scholarship, Driven by Fear looks at the past to offer critical lessons for our age of bioterror threats and emerging infectious diseases.
Annual Report of the City of Burlington
Author: Burlington (Vt.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burlington (Vt.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
Book Description
Annual Report of the Water Department of the City of Burlington, Vermont and of the Water Commissioners
Author: Burlington (Vt.). Water DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal water supply
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The American Environment Revisited
Author: Geoffrey L. BuckleyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442269979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
This innovative book provides a dynamic—and often surprising—view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. A distinguished group of scholars examines the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring. Seventeen original chapters examine topics such as forest conservation, mining landscapes, urban environment justice, solid waste, exotic species, environmental photography, national and state park management, recreation and tourism, and pest control. Commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal work The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies, the book clearly shows much has changed since 1992. Indeed, not only has the range of issues expanded, but an increasing number of geographers are forging links with environmental historians, promoting a level of intellectual cross-fertilization that benefits both disciplines. As a result, environmental historical geographies today are richer and more diverse than ever. The American Environment Revisited offers a comprehensive overview that gives both specialist and general readers a fascinating look at our changing relationships with nature over time.