Signs of Change: Urban Iconographies in San Francisco, 1880-1915

ISBN-13: 9780815353034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Ron Robin

Opis

Originally published in 1990, Signs of Change assess the people of San Francisco according to their own demonstrative standards through the visual symbols. Special attention is devoted to the visual perceptions of immigrants, those whose senses were not smothered by protracted compliance with American mores.

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  1. The Civic Image of the Forty-niner as "Para-History" of San Francisco  2. San Francisco Smelting Pot  3. San Francisco’s Jews and the Architecture of Symbolic Ethnicity  4. Ambivalent Heroes; Icons of Self-Image Among San Francisco’s Italians  5. Epilogue  6. Bibliographical Essay