Immigrant and the University - Peder Sather and Gold Rush California

Zusatztext "Sveen's elegiac biography is an intimate and rambling look at Sather . . . it's a well-researched addition to the literature on early San Francisco! as well as the experience of Norwegian immigrants in the U.S." Informationen zum Autor Karin Sveen is a Norwegian poet! novelist! and essayist. She was awarded the Norsk språkpris (Norwegian Language Prize) in 2007. Barbara J. Haveland has translated for many notable Scandinavian authors! including Peter Høeg! Linn Ullmann! and Jan Kjærstad. Klappentext "Written in an engaging and personal style, Karin Sveen’s biography of Peder Sather reveals the life of one of the University of California’s little known founders.  Now those who pass through Sather Gate and gaze up at Sather Tower can associate a face and a life with the monuments that memorialize his name." —Albert L. Hurtado, author of Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands "This elegant and meticulously researched biography of the San Francisco banker and philanthropist Peder Sather is impossible to put down. It has taken a Norwegian poet to give us, for the first time, the astonishing story of one of California’s—and America’s—most consequential philanthropists and the founder of our nation’s greatest public university. The story of a poor farm boy from a remote corner of Norway, who traversed continents, made a large fortune, and used it to bring learning to generations of average citizens is a monumental tribute to all that is good and great about both Norway and America. The Immigrant and the University is a remarkable accomplishment." —Carla Hesse, Peder Sather Professor and Dean of Social Sciences, University of California, Berkeley   Zusammenfassung Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There he worked as a footman and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the gold rush he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Montgomery Street....

Product details

• Authors: Sveen, Karin Sveen, Sveen Karin
• Assisted by: Kevin Starr (Foreword), Starr Kevin (Foreword), Barbara J. Haveland (Translation), Haveland Barbara J. (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2014
• EAN: 9780520276482
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27648-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, California, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking, Banking, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, universities, History of the Americas, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher