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Empress San Francisco
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ISBN: 0803267827 0803267819 9780803267817 9780803267824 9780803243842 0803243847 9780803267831 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lincoln, NB

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When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco's particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco, California, and the United States at the world's fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and confli


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Down by the bay
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ISBN: 0520951484 9780520951488 9780520273207 0520273206 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley

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San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.

Jewel of the desert : Japanese American internment at Topaz
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ISBN: 0520080041 0585079331 Year: 1993 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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