...The early twentieth century radically changed the world map for insurers. The San Francisco earthquake was the first catastrophe of truly global consequence to the industry. It demonstrated how much the industry had become internationally interlinked, but it also redefined the limits...

...After almost a decade of war and wandering during those times, Ambrose Bierce found himself in early 1867 marooned and jobless in San Francisco. By the mid-1860s, San Francisco grew from a sleepy Mexican seaport into a vital, one might even say protean, city of commercially-minded souls. Several...

...This chapter tells the story of the earliest Chinese immigrants to America, citing the California Gold Rush of 1849 as the primary factor that brought the first large wave of Chinese to the West Coast. It considers how the first wave of Chinese immigrants settled in San Francisco before they began...

...Figure 4. Typescript first page of ‘The Romantic Virtue’ (1972–3) Figure 5. Manuscript page of ‘The Romantic Virtue’ to which first page is attached This chapter explains that after George Oppen Settled in San Francisco, he was fascinated anew by the city of his adolescence and especially...

...Chapter 11 charts North Beach Place’s decade-long struggle from initial HOPE VI proposal (1995) to completed development (2005). Unlike Tucson, where the public sector held sway, San Francisco had a weak housing authority; unlike Boston, no single tenant emerged as a Plebs pole star; and unlike New...

... Corporation Bynoe Edna Chinatown Community Development Center CCDC Community Services Department CSD Tucson HRI Properties Kornegay Chrystal New Orleans Nonprofitus constellation San Francisco Plebs constellation Boston Publica Major constellation Tucson San Francisco Telegraph Hill Neighborhood...

... by supportive government policies, by the emergence of two highly productive biotech clusters in Boston and San Francisco, and, from the 1990s onwards, by closer links with Big Pharma, some of them involving mergers and acquisitions. The chapter shows how the sector recovered from the setbacks of the early...

.... It was not an issue of wilderness preservation, but rather one of water storage or nature tourism. It also represents the seminal battle over public versus private power. History does show that viable water storage alternatives existed, and San Francisco could have developed an equally fine water system built at less...

...Two leaders emerged as San Francisco pursued the valley: Mayor James Phelan and naturalist John Muir. Both were determined and led strong constituencies, and each held competing views of the meaning of progress. Phelan was convinced a great dam symbolized human determination and ingenuity...

... of acceptance included a scientific critique of radicalism. In the States, the experience of San Francisco Digger founder Emmett Grogan, demonstrated culturalist and structuralist strains within an emerging counterculture. In March of 1967, as the Summer of Love approached, Grogan and the Diggers disrupted...

...The Presidio of San Francisco, a Spanish colonial military settlement, was established on July 26, 1776 by a caravan of 193 men, women, and children who had traveled overland from Tubac, Arizona. In less than one short year, the San Francisco Bay area was transformed from the homeland of the Ohlone...

...This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Damara Bennett, Director of the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre. Bennett, who was formerly with San Francisco Ballet, defines technique as what you need in order to express the art form, whether for an abstract or a story ballet...

...This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Gloria Govrin, who has been a soloist with the New York City Ballet and Associate Director of the San Francisco Ballet School. She is now the school director of Minnesota Dance Theatre. Govrin defines technique as positions—trying to do...

... and prisons serving as sites for the care of that same population. Statistics on the disproportionate number of incarcerated women and people of color are also discussed. Finally, the chapter provides an overview of jailcare conditions in San Francisco's jail, which serves as the case study for this volume...

...This chapter takes a closer look at the routine in the San Francisco jail clinic, which reveals that its rhythms and tasks were punctuated by a moral intimacy. That is, care-giving interactions among nurses, clinicians, deputies, and patient-prisoners worked through the personal and moral stakes...

...This book begins with San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The state's nineteenth-century dream had rested on anti-industrial and agrarian themes, but the 1915 exposition announced California's future. In the Palace of Transportation, a Ford rolled off an assembly line...

... of congregations in nine Lutheran churches in the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores how and why a particular religious tradition is changed, about how and why the logic and practices of evangelical religion, seeker spirituality, and the utilitarian, consumerist ethos of American society press upon and ultimately...

... these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded? Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, this book provides new understandings of the transformation of spiritual traditions. It argues...

...This chapter traces the ideological formation surrounding a central moment in the history of American lynching, the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856. The San Francisco vigilantes helped to craft highly influential arguments about the relationship between the people and the law that would...

... Library, University of California, Berkeley. In 1951, San Francisco's Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association staged a Chinese New Year celebration to “support the anti-communism policy of the U.S. government.” The parade's celebratory spirit was dampened not only by a firecracker ban, but also...