Silent Cities San Francisco

Silent Cities San Francisco
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781493056477
ISBN-13 : 1493056476
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Book Synopsis Silent Cities San Francisco by : Jessica Ferri

Download or read book Silent Cities San Francisco written by Jessica Ferri and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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