The Italians Of San Francisco 1850 1930

This book is a detailed study of the Italian community in San Francisco, their experiences, and their efforts to adjust to a new culture. It provides a unique insight into the lives of Italian immigrants and their contributions to American society. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in immigration and the history of San Francisco. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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.

Excerpt from The Italians of San Francisco: Their Adjustment and Acculturation The importance of knowing in considerable detail the nature of the economic environment from which an immigrant group has come need not, of course, be stressed. 'with the best of'mill not even the most adaptable of individuals can erase the influence of the conditions under which he lived during the first twenty years of his life. Indeed one can even push this age forward and say within the first fifteen.years, at least, for peasants and workers. It is practically impossible to throw off such influences psychologically and, even if it were possible to do so, there are certain inescapable social-economic elements enter ing into the situation in.san Francisco which renders it doubly diffi cult to give them.up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.