Silent Cities San Francisco - Hidden Histories of the Region''s Cemeteries

In 1914, desperate for land after the Gold Rush brought a population explosion to San Francisco, the city exiled its cemeteries, barring burials within city limits and relocating its existing graveyards to the tiny town of Colma, just south of Daly City, spawning America's only necropolis, where the dead outnumber the living 1000 to 1. But there's more to the story of the Bay Area's cemeteries than this expulsion. Silent Cities San Francisco reveals the complex cultural makeup of the Bay Area, where diversity and history collide, pitting the dead against the living in a race for space and memorialization.

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By Jessica Ferri

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jessica Ferri
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781493056460
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-5646-0
• Pages: 280
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Voyage > Guides de voyages > Amérique du Nord et centrale; TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), Travel & holiday, Local History, History of the Americas, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states, US West: Pacific States