Fortunes and Failures : : White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco / / Peter R. Decker.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1978
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Harvard Studies in Urban History ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • HARVARD STUDIES IN URBAN HISTORY
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
  • TABLES
  • PART ONE THE PIONEER MERCHANTS
  • 1 THE WESTWARD MIGRATION
  • 2 THE 1850s
  • 3 OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY
  • 4 PROPERTY, CREDIT, AND PERSISTENCE
  • 5 THE SOCIAL FABRIC
  • PART TWO THE SECOND GENERATION
  • 6 THE CIVIL WAR, RAILROADS, AND MANUFACTURING
  • 7 A NEW MERCHANT GENERATION
  • 8 A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
  • 9 A VIEW TOWARD THE NOB
  • 10 CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIXES
  • NOTES
  • INDEX