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Fortunes and Failures

White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
  • Peter R. Decker
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1978
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    Frontmatter

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    HARVARD STUDIES IN URBAN HISTORY

    ii
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    PREFACE

    vii
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    CONTENTS

    xiii
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    ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

    xiv
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    TABLES

    xvi
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  • PART ONE THE PIONEER MERCHANTS
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    1 THE WESTWARD MIGRATION

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    2 THE 1850s

    32
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    3 OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY

    60
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    4 PROPERTY, CREDIT, AND PERSISTENCE

    87
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    5 THE SOCIAL FABRIC

    106
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  • PART TWO THE SECOND GENERATION
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    6 THE CIVIL WAR, RAILROADS, AND MANUFACTURING

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    7 A NEW MERCHANT GENERATION

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    8 A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

    196
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    9 A VIEW TOWARD THE NOB

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    10 CONCLUSION

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    APPENDIXES

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    NOTES

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    INDEX

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eBook published on:
October 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674331518
Hardcover published on:
February 5, 1978
Hardcover ISBN:
9780674331501
Edition:
Reprint 2014
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
15
Main content:
336
Illustrations:
26
Tables:
24
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https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674331518
eBook ISBN: 9780674331518
Hardcover ISBN: 9780674331501
Keywords for this book
Merchants -- California -- San Francisco -- History.; Social mobility -- California -- San Francisco -- History.; White collar workers -- California -- San Francisco -- History.; Occupational mobility -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
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