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Gray Brechin research material for Imperial San Francisco, approximately 1990-2006.
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Gray Brechin research material for Imperial San Francisco, approximately 1990-2006Creator/Contributor:
Brechin, Gray A., creator, creator.Abstract:
This collection primarily consists of drafts of and research materials for Gray Brechin's book Imperial San Francisco: urban
power, earthly ruin, which was first published in 1999. Research materials include photocopied newspaper clippings, articles,
photographs used as illustrations, and index cards. There is a small amount of correspondence related to, and book reviews
of, Imperial San Francisco; graphics from Jack Stauffacher Printing; and materials related to other writing projects. These
include a paper Brechin wrote for a UC Berkeley history class, Creating Reality: The San Francisco Chronicle as Empire's Trumpet;
an article for an anthology on Ishi; and his collaboration with Robert Dawson, Farewell promised land: waking from the California
Dream.
Date:
1990 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caElite (Social sciences) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Pacific Area -- History
Human ecology -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History
Land use -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History
Ecology
Elite (Social sciences)
Human ecology
Land use
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Social aspects
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Biography
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- History
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Social aspects
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions
Pacific Area -- Environmental conditions
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Pacific Area
Brechin, Gray A -- Archives
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Gift of Gray Brechin; 2022.
Some photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Gray A. Brechin is a historical geographer and author. He received a B.A. in history and geography, a M.A. in art history,
and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California at Berkeley. Brechin's dissertation, which used San Francisco as
a case study of how cities "operate at the expense of their environs for the benefit of dynastic elites," was published by
UC Press as Imperial San Francisco in 1999. (See https://graybrechin.net/about.html for more biographical information.)
Gray Brechin research material for Imperial San Francisco, BANC MSS 2022/214, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
manuscripts for publication.Archives.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:
print
2.9 (2 1
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.