San Francisco and the Bay Area

Last update: 03 Oct 1994 12:02
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history, culture, cultural exports

Recommended:
• Birgitta Hjalmarson, Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco
• Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows

To read:
• Gray A. Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
• Marilyn Chase, The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
• Chester Hartman et al., City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
• Marlon K. Hom, Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
• Barney Hoskyns, Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury, 1965--1970
• John Hart (text) and David Sanger (photos), San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary [Official website]
• Chester W. Hartman, City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
• Christophe Lécuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 [Blurb]
• Edith Sparks, Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850--1920
• David Wellman, The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
• Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco