San Francisco

Bored Feet Press

San Francisco Bay Map: Coastal California Series Bluewater Maps Bored Feet Press 9780939431564 Bored Feet Maps. Premium coated paper - 22 x 28, scale 1:165,000 or 1 inch = 2.6 miles. map $16.95 Laminated 9780939431571 $24.95

This spectacular map covers the coastline from Abalone Point, just south of Bolinas in Marin County, to Pescadero Point, just south of the town of Pescadero, in San Mateo County. It includes all of San Francisco city and County and Alameda County plus portions of Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara Counties. Map covers most but not all of San Mateo County. Map extends inland to cover the cities of Pittsburg, Pleasanton and most of San Jose. The town of Los Gatos is on the map's southern edge.

San Francisco & North Peninsula Cities Street Map G.M. Johnson & Associates Bored Feet Press G.M. Johnson & Associates Ltd. 9781770682566 Bored Feet Maps. folded size: 4 x 9, unfolded: 27 x 39., index. 2 pages map $5.95 Pub Date: 2013 Covers all of San Francisco plus adjacent towns to the south: Brisbane, Colma, Daly City, Half Moon Bay, Millbrae, Pacifica, San Bruno,South San Francisco, Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco International Airport, plus parts of Burlingame, Hillsborough, San Mateo. Plus a detail map of downtown San Francisco.

Trees of the San Francisco Bay Area: A Guide to Native Species Gedney, Jack Bored Feet Press Quick Reference Publishing 9781732875234 fold-guide $7.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2020 Covers leaf shapes/ flowers, fruits & cones/ and other distinguishing features. Folding Guide covers 45 native trees, including conifers, oaks and their allies, riparian trees, small trees, and miscellaneous. Each tree is described and has one to three color photos to aid identification. Although it focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area, it is highly useful for most of Northern California.

San Francisco Bay Area Map Global Graphics Bored Feet Press GM Johnson Maps 9780918505132 Folded size 4 x 9, unfolded size 27 x 39. map $6.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2020 One side covers the entire greater Bay Area from

Healdsburg, Calistoga and Lake Berryessa south to Los Gatos and Pescadero. Plus inset maps of San Francisco Airport and Downtown San Jose. Flip side has Los Gatos/Pescadero south to Watsonville, with insets of Downtown San Francisco, Downtown Oakland, Oakland Airport, Bay Area Transit System, Bart System, and Area Map showing Auburn/Clear Lake south to Monterey. Plus Index, and List of Bay Area Places of Interest.

Wildflowers of the San Francisco Bay Area Hartman, Steven Bored Feet Press Quick Reference Publishing, Inc. 9781936913633 12 pages fold-guide $7.95 People exploring nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area can use this

handy photographic field guide to identify annual and perennial (non-shrubby) native wildflower species. The flowers in the guide are grouped by color to make identification as easy as possible, and the accompanying text indicates size, bloom period, and other characteristics of each plant. The guide's six double-sided panels fold up into a packet narrow enough to fit in a back pocket yet sturdy enough to stand up under repeated use. Lamination has also made the guide waterproof. The plants identified in Wildflowers of the Bay Area grow in a large region that includes the valleys, mountains, and coastal plains of 10 counties including San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Napa, Sonoma and Marin.

Geologic Trips, San Francisco & the Bay Area Konigsmark, Ted Bored Feet Press Geopress 9780966131642 5 x 8, full-color cover, 40 photographs, 35 charts and diagrams, 46 maps, index

176 pages paperback $13.95 Written for the non-geologist, this user-friendly book leads readers on fascinating field trips to Bay Area landmarks: Fort Point, Alcatraz, the Cliff House, Sutro Baths, Twin Peaks, Fort Funston, Ocean Beach, Devils Slide, Skyline Drive, Angel Island, the Marin Headlands of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Point Reyes Peninsula. Visits to the San Andreas and Hayward Faults show what earthquakes have caused. Introductory sections provide a concise course in geology, including geologic thinking, plate tectonics, Bay Area rocks, and California faults and earthquakes.

The Walker’s Map of San Francisco: Trails of San Francisco and the Golden Gate - 4th Edition Pease, Ben Bored Feet Press Published by Pease Press. 9780990417354 Full-color map printed both sides, with 50-foot elevation contours and shaded relief. 3.75 x 8.4 folded,

25 x 34 unfolded. Scale: 1:20,000 (main map) and 1:14,300 (insets). paperback $7.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2019 Cartographer Ben Pease distills his 40 years of exploring San Francisco into the perfect map for exploring the city’s scenic parks and hilly neighborhoods. For walking the Bay, Ridge, or Coastal trails to the Golden Gate Bridge, or stitching together stairways, hidden parks and hilltop vistas, or exploring the city’s diverse cultures, old ships, and civic monuments, this best-selling map is a great guide for both visitors and life-time residents. The 2019 4th Edition is completely updated with short, new trails at Laguna Honda, Twin Peaks, and Mount Sutro. The north map shows sights from Downtown and the Ferry Building west to the Presidio and the Cliff House, plus ferry routes to Angel Island, Sausalito and Tiburon and trails on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge. Four inset maps zoom in on Golden Gate Park, Fort Point, and Buena Vista Park. The Downtown inset

includes Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, Nob, Russian and Telegraph hills, plus shoreline paths along the Embarcadero. The south map shows the Mission, West Portal, Noe Valley, Castro, Sunset, and Excelsior neighborhoods, plus Daly City and the cemeteries of Colma. It extends south from Golden Gate Park over Mt. Sutro, Twin Peaks, McLaren Park, and San Bruno Mountain, plus seven miles of Ocean Beach from the Beach Chalet to Mussel Rock. One thing that makes this map stand out is it extends beyond the city limits, showing four big natural areas that overlook the City and play a big part in our sense of place. The Presidio, Marin Headlands, Angel Island, and San Bruno Mountain feature tapestries of coastal scrub and wildflowers, only minutes from busy neighborhoods. you’ll understand the City’s little parks better knowing the big landscapes they are part of. The 4th Edition shows new trails near Twin Peaks and along the eastern shoreline. Text includes contact info for park agencies, regional trails, transit agencies, volunteering, museums and tours; plus trail etiquette, dog and bicycle info, and suggested reading.

Gold Fever: San Francisco 1851 Salter, Ken Bored Feet Press Regent Press 9781587902406 6 x 9, color cover, 4 maps, 25 other illustrations, bibliography.

322 pages paperback $18.95 “This compelling story is filled with rich historical details, bringing to life all the legendary excitement and chaos of the California Gold Rush: the many ships abandoned in the Bay; the crowded and dirty City filled with immigrants off all kinds; the high prices, shortages of goods, and predatory con artists roaming the City; and the drudgery, rivalries and lawlessness of the mining districts. Gold Fever depicts in vivid detail the plight of new immigrants, women and scoundrels in the Gold Rush.” — Annick Foucrier, professors of North American History at the University of Paris, the Sorbonne, and Director of the Center for North American Research.

Gold Fever, Part Two, San Francisco 1851-1852 Salter, Ken Bored Feet Press Regent Press 9781587903007 346 pages paperback $18.95

San Francisco has been torched twice in the space of six weeks. Merchants and residents are angry and organized in a Committee of Vigilance to arrest, try and hang the arsonists and all the other cutthroats, villains and armed criminals that make the city a dangerous, lawless den of inequity in 1851 and 1852. The Governor, his cronies, and the corrupt city and county officials are determined to rein in the Committee of Vigilance even if it means civil war. Pierre and Manon Dubois must negotiate their way carefully through the minefield of warring factions, treacherous streets, and from competition of the boatloads of new immigrants, Jezebels and fortune hunters arriving weekly. The city is still a ruthless man's world where Yankee men control commerce, can bribe juries and customs officials, and deport foreign immigrants at will. Can Manon realize her dream to own and run a high-end French restaurant employing women chefs in competition with the established male-owned and staffed restaurants? Can Pierre establish a viable notary and private detective agency in this uncertain environment? Can Manon's women partners, associates and employees prevail in their careers in the still lawless town with over 2,000 saloons, innumerable gambling palaces and dens, fancy bordellos and sex-slave cribs?

Muir Ramble Route: Walking from San Francisco to Yosemite in the Footsteps of John Muir Thomas, Peter and Thomas, Donna Bored Feet Press Poetic Matrix Press 9780982427668

6 x 9, full color cover, 51 black & white photographs, 13 drawings, 10 maps, references, index. 198 pages paperback $19.50 A Guide for hiking from San Francisco to Yosemite. With an account of the original 1868 trip by John Muir. This fascinating book really includes three books in this single volume. It's a guidebook for a walking/cycling route across California that follows John Muir's footsteps from San Francisco to Yosemite via the Pacheco Pass. It's an adventure book that tells the story of Peter and Donna Thomas' 2006 ramble across California to discover that route. And finally it is a history book, presenting in its entirety and for the first time, the complete story of John Muir's first trip to Yosemite. Muir took that trip in 1868, the year before Muir's First Summer in the Sierra, and it has never been published before, existing in obscurity in Muir's various writings, until it was reconstructed by Peter and Donna in preparation for their walk to Yosemite in his footsteps. The Thomases’ Muir Ramble Route covers 305 miles divided into seven sections. Each section contains both directions for through hiking and a

recommended trip that can be completed over a long weekend. The Thomas' offer several options for various sections: day hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, even canoeing. They suggest lodging options where available, and camping options wherever they are available along the route. They discuss advantages of walking versus cycling, how to plan vehicle shuttles, public transportation where available, and clothes and equipment suggestions, maps too. The Thomases have crafted a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that provides abundant information for the task at hand.

Johns Hopkins University Press

Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown Risse, Guenter B. Johns Hopkins University Press 9781421405100 18 halftones, 1 line drawing 392 pages hardcover $42.95

Pub Date: 3/14/2012 When health officials in San Francisco discovered bubonic plague in their city’s Chinatown in 1900, they responded with intrusive, controlling, and arbitrary measures that touched off a sociocultural conflict still relevant today. Guenter B. Risse’s history of an epidemic is the first to incorporate the voices of those living in Chinatown at the time, including the desperately ill Wong Chut King, believed to be the first person infected.

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 Young, Terence Johns Hopkins University Press 9780801889813 Creating the North American Landscape. 80 halftones 280 pages

paperback $32 Pub Date: 6/4/2008 In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century.

Oxford University Press

Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Lippert, Amy DeFalco Oxford University Press 9780190268978 416 pages hardcover $36.95

Pub Date: 4/2/2018 Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenth-century society.

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco Norris, Frank Oxford University Press 9780199554898 Oxford World’s Classics. Edited with an introduction by Jerome Loving 384 pages paperback

$11.95 Pub Date: 9/28/2009 McTeague created a literary sensation when it first appeared in 1899. Critics hailed Frank Norris as the 'American Zola' for his gritty tale of greed and violence set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Yet the novel's ultra-realistic portrayal of the rise and fall of a simpleminded dentist and his grasping wife shocked many readers with its candid depiction of sordid behavior right at the edge of insanity. It remains a searing indictment of human weakness and selfishness in a rapidly evolving America that battled to reconcile city life with the mores of the Wild West.

Temple University Press

Local Protests, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco Beitel, Karl Temple University Press 9781439909959 230 pages paperback

$30.95 A history of the anti-gentrification and housing rights movement in San Francisco, Local Protests, Global Movements examines the ability of local urban movements to engage in meaningful contestation with private real estate capital and area governmental leaders in the era of urban neoliberalism. Using San Francisco as an illuminating case study, Beitel analyzes the innovative ways urban social movements have organized around issues regarding land use, housing, urban ecology, and health care on the local level to understand the changing nature of protest formation around the world. Reconciling the passing of New Left Ideals and the emergence of mobilization on a global scale, he assesses the limits of contemporary urban movements as conduits for advancing a radical political program. Beitel argues these limits reflect recurrent problems of internal fragmentation, and the manner in which liberal democratic institutions structure processes of political participation and interest representation.

Saving San Francisco: Relief and Recovery after the 1906 Disaster Davies, Andrea Rees Temple University Press 9781439904336 220 pages paperback $31.95

How the relief and rebuilding efforts after the 1906 disaster reproduced the class and racial divisions of pre-quake San Francisco. Combining the experiences of ordinary people with urban politics and history, Saving San Francisco challenges the long-lived myth that the 1906 disaster erased social differences as it leveled the city. Highlighting new evidence from San Francisco's relief camps, Andrea Rees Davies shows that as policy makers directed various forms of aid to groups and projects that enjoyed high social status before the disaster, the widespread need and dislocation created opportunities for some groups to challenge biased relief policy. Poor and working-class refugees organized successful protests, while Chinatown business leaders and middle-class white women mobilized resources for the less privileged. Ultimately, however, the political and financial elite shaped relief and reconstruction efforts and cemented social differences in San Francisco.

San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement Habal, Estella Temple University Press 9781592134465 Asian American

History & Culture 256 pages paperback $30.95 The struggle to save the International Hotel, in the San Francisco neighborhood known as Manilatown, culminated in 1977 with the eviction of elderly tenant activists. Many of them were Filipino bachelors who had emigrated to the U. S. in the 1920s and 1930s for menial labor. Each evicted tenant was accompanied by at least one young activist who had come to find their roots in the lives of the ‘manongs’ (respected elders). San Francisco's International Hotel is part history and part memoir. In telling this compelling story, Estella Habal features her own memories of the Anti-Eviction Movement, focusing on the roles of Filipino Americans and their participation in both the anti-eviction protests and the nascent Asian American movement. She rounds out the narrative with a variety of sources, including interviews with other participants, the notes of insiders, and official reports. A new International Hotel was finally built on the site. It commemorates the residents and activists who fought for low-income housing for the elderly and their right to remain in their own community.

Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco Issel, William Temple University Press 9781439909928 Urban Life, Landscape and

Policy 330 pages paperback $30.95 Church and State in the City provides the first comprehensive analysis of the city's long debate about the public interest. Historian William Issel explores the complex ways that the San Francisco Catholic Church--and its lay men and women--developed relationships with the local businesses, unions, other community groups, and city government to shape debates about how to define and implement the common good. Issel's deeply researched narrative also sheds new light on the city's socialists, including Communist Party activists--the most important transnational challengers of both capitalism and Catholicism during the twentieth century. Moreover, Church and State in the City is revisionist in challenging the notion that the history of urban politics and policy can best be understood as the unfolding of a progressive, secular modernization of urban political culture. Issel shows how tussles over the public interest in San Francisco were both distinctive to the city and shaped by its American character.

Trailmaster

HIKE San Francisco: Best Day Hikes in and Around the City McKinney, John Trailmaster 9780934161831 5.5 x 8.5. 144 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date:

New trade paperback format Perfect for your pocket or pack and complete with the Trailmaster’s colorful stories, proven trail accounts and easy-to-follow maps. From Golden Gate Park to Twin Peaks to Land’s End, Hiking Expert John McKinney shares favorite hikes in San Francisco’s natural treasures and nearby national parkland. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, escape to Alcatraz, and hike Angel Island, jewel of San Francisco Bay. Explore the Presidio, Baker Beach, Muir Beach and many more memorable locales in Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Hike the magnificent Marin Headlands, ascend mighty Mt. Tamalpais, and admire the ancient redwoods in Muir Woods.

University of Arkansas Press

San Francisco Bay Area Sports: Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation, and Community Liberti, Rita and Smith, Maureen M. (editors) University of Arkansas Press 9781682260203 Sport, Culture,

and Society series. 6 × 9 352 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 3/15/2017 San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians played, leisured, recreated, and competed over the last 150 years.

University of Hawaii Press

Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island Horiuchi, Lynne and Sankalia, Tanu (editors) University of Hawaii Press 9780824866020 7 x 10. 98 color illustrations.

288 pages hardcover $52 Pub Date: 9/30/2017 When it was built in 1937, Treasure Island was considered to be one of the largest man-made islands in the world. Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the 400-acre island was constructed out of dredged bay mud in a remarkable feat of Depression-era civil engineering by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Its alluring name is an allusion to the fabled remnants of the California Gold Rush found at the bottom of the ocean floor that makes the island. This collection of essays tells the story of San Francisco’s Treasure Island—an artificial, disconnected island that has paradoxically been central to the city’s urban ambitions. Conceived as a site for San Francisco’s first airport in an age of automobile and air transport, Treasure Island hosted the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) in 1939 celebrating the completion of the Golden Gate and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges. With particular focus on Asia and Latin America, the GGIE promoted peace, harmony, and commerce in the Pacific. Treasure Island’s planned use as an airport was scuttled when World War II

abruptly reversed the exposition’s message of Pacific unity, and the U.S. government developed Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island into a major Pacific theater naval base. Today, in the midst of a high-tech boom and in one of the most expensive real-estate markets in the world, the city of San Francisco and its developers are proposing an ambitious vision for a new eco-city of about 19,000 residents on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. The project is considered a model of green urbanism synonymous with a growing global trend toward large-scale, capital-intensive land developments envisioned around ideas of sustainability and spectacular place making. Seen against the successive history of development, future visions for Treasure Island are part of a process of building and erasure that Horiuchi and Sankalia call urban reinventions. This is a process of radical change in which artificial, detached, and delimited sites such as Treasure Island provide an ideal plane for tabula rasa planning driven by property, capital, and state control. With contributions by authors well known for their interdisciplinary work, Urban Reinventions demonstrates how a single site may be interpreted in multiple ways: as a world’s fair site, military installation, a semi-derelict relic of past lives, a toxic site of nuclear waste, and a future eco-city and major real estate development. The volume offers a wide spectrum of critiques of race, imperialism, gendered Orientalism, military land use, property capital exchange, new-eco cities, sustainability, and waste as a byproduct of development.

University of Nevada Press

Last Bonanza Kings: The Bourns of San Francisco Egan, Ferol University of Nevada Press 9780874177862 312 pages paperback $29.95 Much of the wealth from the

great mining bonanzas of the nineteenth century American West flowed into San Francisco and made possible the growth of the city and some fabulous personal fortunes.

The San Francisco Civic Center: A History of the Design, Controversies, and Realization of the City Beautiful Masterpiece Haas, James University of Nevada Press

9781948908153 224 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 5/15/2019 The untold 150-year story of inspiration and controversy surrounding San Francisco's Civic Center.

A Tale of Two Bridges the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridges of 1936 and 2013 Mikesell, Stephen University of Nevada Press 9781943859269 6 x 9. 32 b/w photographs

192 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: April 2017 A pioneering study of the construction of two iconic bridges.

Garbage: Saga of Boss Scavenger in San Francisco Stefanelli, Leonard Dominic University of Nevada Press 9781943859399 5.5 x 8.5. 24 b/w photos 244 pages paperback

$22.95 Pub Date: 10/17/2017 A fascinating rags-to-riches story and a personal and intimate history of one man’s experience in life and the waste management business. Stefanelli was mentioned in the book In Search of Excellence by Peters years ago.

University of New Mexico Press

San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature Fine, David and Skenazy, Paul University of New Mexico Press 9780826316219 6 x 9 249 pages paperback

$19.95 Pub Date: 1995 From the Gold Rush times of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, through the Prohibition Era of Dashiell Hammett to the Beat days of Jack Kerouac and the present works of writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Arturo Islas, San Francisco has been blessed with great writers who have given life to the land in their fiction. These essays engage the history and geography, ethnic, gender, and class conflicts, and stylistic range of the fiction. They demonstrate how authors as various as Jack London, Gertrude Atherton, Frank Norris, William Saroyan, James D. Houston, Joan Didion, and Wallace Stegner have re-created and revised our understanding of this region.

Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821 Newell, Quincy D. University of New Mexico Press 9780826347077 6 x 9 277 pages

paperback $30 Pub Date: 2011 Located at the tip of the San Francisco peninsula in the heart of what is now the city's Mission District, the Mission of San Francisco de Asís, established in 1776, was the sixth to be founded in the Alta California mission system.

University of Oklahoma Press

San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Chandler, Robert J. University of Oklahoma Press 9780806144108 8.5 x 11. The

Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West Series - 14. 20 b&w and 125 color illus. 264 pages hardcover $36.95 Pub Date: 1/29/2014 This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Grafton Tyler Brown-whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American-finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird's-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans

and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown's lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Chandler's contextualization of Brown's career goes beyond the issue of race. Showing how Brown survived and flourished as a businessman, Chandler offers unique insight into the growth of printing and publishing in California and the West. He examines the rise of lithography, its commercial and cultural importance, and the competition among lithographic companies. He also analyzes Brown's work and style, comparing it to the products of rival firms. Brown was not respected as a fine artist until after his death. Collectors of western art and Americana now recognize the importance of Californiana and of Brown's work, some of which depicts Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and they will find Chandler's checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown's ephemera-including billheads and maps-as uniquely valuable as Chandler's contribution to the cultural and commercial history of California. In an afterword, historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore discusses the circumstances and significance of passing in nineteenth-century America.

A Toast to Eclipse: Arpad Haraszthy and the Sparkling Wine of Old San Francisco McGinty, Brian University of Oklahoma Press 9780806142487 6 x 9. 26 b&w illus. 256 pages

hardcover $19.95 Pub Date: 3/25/2012 In A Toast to Eclipse, Brian McGinty offers a definitive history of the sparkling wines of California, exploring the state’s winemaking past and two of the people who put the state’s varietal wines on the map: Arpad and his father Agoston Haraszthy, the legendary father of California viticulture. Inspired by his father’s dream of making California one of the world’s great viticultural regions, Arpad Haraszthy (1840–1900) pursued that goal at a time when the best grapes for making California wine had yet to be discovered, when the best locations for vineyards had not yet been established. Aficionados of wine and of California history will find this narrative insightful and refreshing, and all readers will gain an appreciation for Arpad Haraszthy, Eclipse, and the delicate process of making a wine sparkle.

Empire on Display: San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 Moore, Sarah J. University of Oklahoma Press 9780806143484 6 x 9. 15 color photos, 49 b&w

illus. 256 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 5/31/2013 The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific, where the American empire could now expand after its victory in the Spanish-American War. Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the event’s expansionist and masculinist symbolism.

Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee Taniguchi, Nancy J. University of Oklahoma Press 9780806153988 6 x 9. 27 b&w illus., 1 map

320 pages hardcover $32.95 Pub Date: 10/27/2016 Reveals greed as the true motive for vigilante violence in early San Francisco/California. The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city’s docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 dispute over land titles, an outspoken newspaperman shot a county official, prompting a group of merchants to organize the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The committee, which met in secret, fed biased stories to the newspapers, depicting itself as a necessary substitute for incompetent law enforcement. But its actual purpose was quite different. In Dirty Deeds, historian Nancy J. Taniguchi draws on the 1856 Committee’s minutes - long lost until she unearthed them - to present the first clear picture of its actions and motivations. San Francisco’s real estate comprised a patchwork of land grants left from the Spanish and Mexican governments - grants

that had been appropriated and sold over and over. Even after the establishment of a federal board in 1851 to settle the complicated California claims, land titles remained confused, and most of the land in the city belonged to no one. The acquisition of key waterfront properties in San Francisco by an ambitious politician motivated the thirty-odd merchants who called themselves the Executives of the Vigilance Committee to go directly after these parcels. Despite the organization’s assertion of working on behalf of law and order, its tactics—kidnapping, forced deportations, and even murder—went far beyond the bounds of law. For more than a century, scholars have accepted the vigilantes’ self-serving claims to honorable motives. Dirty Deeds tells the real story, in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committee’s activities affected events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the United States even after the Civil War.

University of Pennsylvania Press

Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco Contreras, Eduardo University of Pennsylvania Press 9780812251128 Politics and Culture in Modern

America. 6 x 9 | 11 illus. 352 pages hardcover $45 Focusing on San Francisco, Eduardo Contreras addresses questions dealing with Latino political inclination, offering a bold, textured, and inclusive interpretation of the nature and character of Latino politics in America's shifting social and cultural landscape.

The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco Cordova, Cary University of Pennsylvania Press 9780812224641 6 1/8 x 9 ¼. 14 color, 65 b/w illus. 336 pages paperback $27.50

Pub Date: 5/1/2020 New in Paperback. The so-called Mission School movement refers to the San Francisco counterculture art of the 1990's and 2000's. But way before the art world ever noticed, the Mission District was a hotbed of radical Latino art. In The Heart of the Mission, Cary Cordova traces this arts movement from the 1940's through the 1990's. She analyzes the Latin jazz scene of the 1940s, Latino involvement in the avant-garde of the 1950s, the Chicano movement and Third World movements of the 1960s, the community moral movement of the 1970s, the transnational liberation movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s. Ultimately, Latino art in the Mission District helped create a vanguard, cross-cultural Latino politics, known as Latinidad. Winner of the Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award. Finalist for the Susanne M Glasscock Humanities. Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.

Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge Dyble, Louise Nelson University of Pennsylvania Press 9780812222784 American Business, Politics,

and Society. 29 illustrations. 296 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2013 Since its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has become an icon for the beauty and prosperity of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a symbol of engineering achievement.

University Press of Florida

Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco - Revised edition Voss, Barbara L University Press of Florida 9780813061252 6 x 9. 15 illustrations, 32

b/w photos, 12 maps, 25 tables 432 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 3/10/2015 In this interdisciplinary study of colonial San Francisco, Barbara L. Voss examines one of the most diverse population’s ethnogenesis—the passive and active creation of an ethnic group. Through archaeological analysis of religious, environmental, cultural, and political differences in the El Presidio region in California, Voss reveals the development of social identities with the colony. Voss attempts to reconcile material culture with historical records, challenging widely held beliefs about ethnic growth. Focusing on the colonizers rather than the colonized, Voss presents a theoretical framework that will guide archaeologists’ future investigations.

University Press of Kansas

Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906 Berglund, Barbara University Press of Kansas 9780700617227 312 pages paperback $19.95

Pub Date: 9/12/2007 The San Francisco that rose from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire was a city of rigid social stratification--a city determined to contain its diverse and disorderly rough-and-tumble past some sixty years after its acquisition by the United States.

Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954 Broussard, Albert S. University Press of Kansas 9780700606849 paperback $27.50

Pub Date: 10/1/1994 In Black San Francisco, Albert Broussard explores race relations in a city where whites, for the most part, were outwardly civil to blacks while denying them employment opportunities and political power. Understanding the texture of the racial caste system, he argues, is critical to understanding why blacks made so little progress in employment, housing, and politics despite the absence of segregation laws.

Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 Deleon, Richard Edward University Press of Kansas 9780700605552 256 pages paperback $17.95

Pub Date: 9/1/1992 Left Coast City provides insight into how San Francisco's progressive coalition developed between 1975 and 1991, what stresses emerged to cause splintering within the coalition, and how the coalition fell apart in the 1991 mayoral campaign. Focusing on San Francisco's turbulent political history, non-conformist traditions, and ethnic and cultural diversity, political scientist Richard DeLeon analyzes the successes and failures of the progressive movement as it topples the business-dominated pro-growth regime, imposes stringent controls on growth and development, and achieves political control of city hall.

The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism Rothman, Hal University Press of Kansas 9780700612864 hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 2/2/2004

From Yellowstone to the Great Smoky Mountains, America's national parks are sprawling tracts of serenity, most of them carved out of public land for recreation and preservation around the turn of the last century. America has changed dramatically since then, and so has its conceptions of what parkland ought to be. In this book, one of our premier environmental historians looks at the new phenomenon of urban parks, focusing on San Francisco's Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a prototype for the twenty-first century. Cobbled together from public and private lands in a politically charged arena, the GGNRA represents a new direction for parks as it highlights the long-standing tension within the National Park Service between preservation and recreation. Long a center of conservation, the Bay Area was well positioned for such an innovative concept. Writing with insight and wit, Rothman reveals the many complex challenges that local leaders, politicians, and the NPS faced as they attempted to administer sites in this area. He tells how Representative Phillip Burton guided a comprehensive bill through Congress to establish the park and how he and others expanded the acreage of the GGNRA, redefined its mission to the public, forged an identity for interconnected parks,

and struggled against formidable odds to obtain the San Francisco Presidio and convert it into a national park. Engagingly written, The New Urban Park offers a balanced examination of grassroots politics and its effect on municipal, state, and federal policy. While most national parks dominate the economies of their regions, GGNRA was from the start tied to the multifaceted needs of its public and political constituents-including neighborhood, ethnic, and labor interests as well as the usual supporters from the conservation movement. As a national recreation area, GGNRA helped redefine that category in the public mind. By the dawn of the new century, it had already become one of the premier national park areas in terms of visitation. Now as public lands become increasingly scarce, GGNRA may well represent the future of national parks in America. Rothman shows that this model works, and his book will be an invaluable resource for planning tomorrow's parks.

Wayne State University Press

A Terrible Anger: 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco Selvin, David F. Wayne State University Press 9780814326107 272 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: August

1, 1996 In the endless struggle of American workers for recognition and respect in modern industrial society, the Pacific Coast maritime strike and the San Francisco General Strikes in 1934 stand as crucial and symbolic events.

Wesleyan University Press

Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance Ellingham, Lewis and Killian, Kevin Wesleyan University Press 9780819553089 30 illus. 6 x 9 461 pages hardcover

$40 Pub Date: 1998 The first biography of poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965), a key figure in San Francisco’s gay cultural scene and in the development of American avant garde poetries.

Westholme Publishing

Museums of San Francisco Amorella, Margaret C. Westholme Publishing 9781594160363 160 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 11/28/2006

With its stunning old-world architecture, steep hills and sweeping vistas, San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the United States. It is also considered one of the most culturally diverse, as can be seen from the numerous museums both large and small. 'Museums of San Francisco' is a complete reference guide to 70 of the cities museums that are open to the public - from the Mexican Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, to the infamous Alcatraz where Al Capone was incarcerated. This extensive volume also contains up-to-date contact, opening, and admission information, and is a must-have guide for anyone wishing to take full advantage of all that San Francisco has to offer.