Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides

Author:   Matthew Booker
Publisher:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520273207


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   07 June 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Matthew Booker
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520273207


ISBN 10:   0520273206
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   07 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Between the Tides: Layers of History in San Francisco Bay 1. Rising Tide 2. Ghost Tidelands 3. Reclaiming the Delta 4. An Edible Bay 5. From Real Estate to Refuge Conclusion: Rising Tides? Notes Bibliography Index

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Booker gives the city a fresh face; the familiar becomes strange and wonderful. . . . Down by the Bay is a genuine pearl in the sea of contemporary environmental writing. --Jonah Raskin San Francisco Chronicle (06/23/2013)


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Matthew Morse Booker is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford and leads the Between the Tides project at Stanford's Spatial History Lab, mapping San Francisco Bay's dynamic tidal margin.

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