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Download or read book Hop Lee, The Chinese Slave Dealer; Or, Old and Young King Brady and the Opium Fiends. A Story of San Francisco written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Worcester Doughty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Hop Lee, the Chinese Slave Dealer, Or, Old and Young King Brady and the Opium Fiends written by Francis Worcester Doughty and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Gleason
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814732461
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Sites Unseen written by William A. Gleason and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader conversations about American culture, history, politics, and—although we have not yet understood this clearly—race relations. This rich and copiously illustrated interdisciplinary study explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through domestic architecture. In addition to identifying an archive of provocative primary materials, Sites Unseen draws significantly on important recent scholarship in multiple fields ranging from literature, history, and material culture to architecture, cultural geography, and urban planning. Together the chapters interrogate a variety of expressive American vernacular forms, including the dialect tale, the novel of empire, letters, and pulp stories, along with the plantation cabin, the West Indian cottage, the Latin American plaza, and the “Oriental” parlor. These are some of the overlooked plots and structures that can and should inform a more comprehensive consideration of the literary and cultural meanings of American architecture. Making sense of the relations between architecture, race, and American writing of the long nineteenth century—in their regional, national, and hemispheric contexts—Sites Unseen provides a clearer view not only of this catalytic era but also more broadly of what architectural historian Dell Upton has aptly termed the social experience of the built environment.
Author : Elizabeth Kelly Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190073128
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Habit Forming written by Elizabeth Kelly Gray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published extensively about domestic addiction. Later in the nineteenth century, many used cocaine and heroin as medicine. As addiction became a major public health issue, commentators typically sympathized with white, middle-class drug users, while criticizing such use by poor or working-class people and people of color. When habituation was associated with middle-class morphine users, few advocated for restricted drug access. By the 1910s, as use was increasingly associated with poor young men, support for regulations increased. In outlawing users' access to habit-forming drugs at the national level, a public health problem became a larger legal and social problem, one with an enduring influence on American drug laws and their enforcement.
Author : Christopher David Thrasher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786497041
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Fight Sports and American Masculinity written by Christopher David Thrasher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvation. This work explains how the dominant fight sports in the United States have changed over time in response to broad shifts in American culture and ideals of manhood, and presents a narrative of American history as seen from the bars, gyms, stadiums and living rooms of the heartland. Ordinary Americans were the agents who supported and participated in fight sports and determined its vision of masculinity. This work counters the economic determinism prevalent in studies of American fight sports, which overemphasize profit as the driving force in the popularization of these sports. The author also disputes previous scholarship's domestic focus, with an appreciation of how American fight sports are connected to the rest of the world.
Download or read book The Bradys in the Chinese Quarter; Or, The Queen of the Opium Fiends written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bradys and the Chinese Juggler; Or, The Opium Fiend's Revenge written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis W. Doughty
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 375238395X
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book The Bradys After a Chinese Princess written by Francis W. Doughty and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Bradys After a Chinese Princess by Francis W. Doughty
Author : Julia Flynn Siler
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101875267
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The White Devil's Daughters written by Julia Flynn Siler and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943), and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom. From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese women and girls. Known as the Occidental Mission Home, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violence directed against its occupants and supporters-- a courageous group of female abolitionists who fought the slave trade in Chinese women, challenging the corrosive, anti-Chinese prejudices of the time. Siler relates how the women who ran the house defied contemporary convention, even occasionally broke the law, by physically rescuing children from the brothels where they worked, or snatching them off the ships smuggling them in, and helped bring the exploiters to justice. She has also uncovered the stories of many of the girls and young women who came to the Mission and the lives they later led, sometimes becoming part of the home's staff themselves. A remarkable story of an overlooked part of our history, told with sympathy and vigor.--
Author : Lee Payne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781468041897
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Tales from the Mountain of Gold written by Lee Payne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a novel of gold rush San Francisco, a place and time so far out of the ordinary that, even in its day, it could scarcely be believed by those who weren't there. Banker and future Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman said he would sooner throw candy among school children and expect its return than he would lend money to San Franciscans. Supported by the city's lawyers and escaped Australian convicts, he would have directed cannon fire into the Vigilante headquarters at the corner of California and Sacramento Streets except that Admiral Farragut would not lend him his sloop-of-war. Lillie Coit began her career as a fire-obsessed eight-year-old who ran with the volunteer firemen, translated Civil War dispatches for Emperor Louis Napoleon and finally donated $100,000 for Coit Tower that stands above the city today. Be advised, this is not the gold rush of your school texts. This is a city with a thousand men for every woman, the kind of unbalanced society only unsupervised men can create. This tour goes from Belle Ryan's, the finest brothel on the Pacific Slope to the mean cribs and slave auction in Chinatown. And your tour guide? The first of 6,000 teenage Chinese sex slaves imported into the city between 1852 and 1873. A further warning--you will encounter a number of politicians. Like ours, they were famous in their day and are now blessedly forgotten, though some deserve revisiting. William Gwin was a Congressman from Mississippi who joined the gold rush specifically to protect slavery by being sent to the U.S. Senate from what he suspected would become a new state. He achieved his goal in seven months! Opposing him was David Broderick, a former New York City fireman and anti-slavery Democrat. A third politician was Edward Baker, Lincoln's former law partner, the finest orator on the Pacific Coast and Oregon's first Republican Senator. It was a combination that lead to gunfire and death. Finally, what's a gold rush without the gold? Travel to Nevada where, a quarter mile beneath Virginia City, our heroine faces the biggest chunk of it ever, the 50-story tall Big Bonanza. She meets the four Irishmen who own it and is seduced by Slippery Jim Fair, the richest man ever to die unloved in San Francisco. The lines that Uncle Jimmy Fair used to get the numerous ladies into his bed have not been recorded. I had to make them up. But we do have General Sherman's letters, Lillie Coit's diaries and all the lurid details from dozens of San Francisco newspapers. What they report is a tale made even more unbelievable for being pretty much exactly true. Invest $25.95 to take the R-rated tour--maybe NC-17--it is a love story but there are several hangings.
Author : Stephen J. Gertz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Dope Menace written by Stephen J. Gertz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lurid glories of twentieth-century pulp drug literature.
Author : Gus Lee
Publisher : Penguin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book China Boy written by Gus Lee and published by Penguin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young, American-born child of an aristocratic Mandarin family that has fled China struggles to assimilate in 1950s San Francisco in a novel from "an incredibly rich and new voice." (Amy Tan).
Author : Barbara Diamond Goldin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780329136413
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Red Means Good Fortune written by Barbara Diamond Goldin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Jin Mun, working for his father's laundry in San Francisco Chinatown, is shocked to discover that one of his neighbors is a slave girl, forbidden to leave her house.
Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143119087
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Hundred Secret Senses written by Amy Tan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "wisest and most captivating novel" (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir Where the Past Begins Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.
Author : Emily Faithfull
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429004606
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Three Visits to America written by Emily Faithfull and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman from Scotland recounts her travels in the U.S., focusing particularly issues relating to women (education, employment, etc.), also discussing more general cultural matters.
Author : Aleister Crowley
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Diary of a Drug Fiend written by Aleister Crowley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Drug Fiend was Aleister Crowley's first published novel, and is also reportedly the earliest known reference to the Abbey of Thelema in Sicily. The story is widely thought to be based upon Crowley's own drug experiences, despite being written as a fiction. This seems almost conclusively confirmed by Crowley's statement in the novel's preface: "This is a true story. It has been rewritten only so far as was necessary to conceal personalities."
Author : Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia written by Alfred W. McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
