Italy on the Pacific
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Italy on the Pacific

San Francisco's Italian Americans

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Italy on the Pacific

San Francisco's Italian Americans

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This book details the Italian immigrant experience in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Mayoralty of George Moscone - which is to say the entire life cycle of the Italian community - and defines the concept of community in a way never seen before.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
ISBN
9781137002068
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Italy on the Pacific: San Francisco’s Italian Americans
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Pioneers: Kindling an Italian Group Consciousness in Early San Francisco
  7. 2 The Emigration: Creating Italy without Italians
  8. 3 The Immigrant Economy: Making Assets out of Liabilities
  9. 4 Their Signature Calling: Italian American Winemaking Comes of Age
  10. 5 North Beach: A Community-Building Thrust Achieves Critical Mass
  11. 6 Day of Reckoning: Fasces versus Stars and Stripes and the Road to World War II
  12. 7 Long Journey Home: Opening out into the Mainstream
  13. Epilogue: Creating Americans
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index