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City of vice : transience and San Francisco's urban history, 1848-1917 / James Mallery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mallery, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vice control--California--San Francisco--History.
- Vice control.
- Social control--California--San Francisco--History.
- Social control.
- Social norms--California--San Francisco--History.
- Social norms.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "In "City of Vice" James Mallery explores the implications of social constructs like gender, race, and class for the development of San Francisco from the Gold Rush through World War I"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Gold rush and the walking city, 1850s
- Waterfront and the new Fulton house, 1893
- Main stem and the industrial army, 1894
- Chinatown and quarantine, 1900
- Earthquake and firestorm, 1906
- Outside lands and residence parks, 1912-13
- Barbary coast and the anti-"vice" campaigns, 1913
- Uptown tenderloin and the anti-"vice" campaign, 1917.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781496230263
- 1496230264
- OCLC:
- 1402246682
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