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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface to the 2007 Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition: The Urban Maelstrom | |
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| Introduction: New Romes for a New World | |
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| Foundations of Dominion | |
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| The Pyramid of Mining | |
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| Mythologizing Mining | |
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| The Invisible Pyramid | |
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| California's Classical Precedent | |
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| The Renaissance of Mining | |
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| The Age of Discovery, Conquest, and Fugger | |
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| De Re Metallica | |
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| The James Marshall Myth | |
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| A Promised Land Plundered | |
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| Working the Frisco 'Change | |
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| Ralston, His Ring, and the Comstock Lode | |
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| The Sierra Nevada Flayed | |
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| Halting Hydraulicking | |
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| Mining Engineers as Heralds of Empire | |
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| Deferred Costs | |
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| Specious Denials | |
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| Enduring Attitudes | |
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| Transfer Technology | |
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| Financial Districts as Inverted Minescapes | |
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| Water Mains and Bloodlines | |
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| Revealing Power | |
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| A Shrine to Water | |
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| Roman Aqueducts | |
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| The Spring Valley Monopoly | |
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| San Francisco Reclaims San Mateo County | |
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| Hermann Schussler | |
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| William Hammond Hall and the Thirst of Golden Gate Park | |
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| Ralston's Last Gambit | |
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| Sharon Rises on Ralston's Fall | |
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| Francis Griffith Newlands | |
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| Building Burlingame | |
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| Phantom Capital | |
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| The Greening of San Mateo County | |
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| Phelan Discovers a Reservoir Site | |
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| Enhancing Real Estate Values | |
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| Los Angeles Lurches Ahead | |
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| San Francisco Stalls | |
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| None Other Than Hetch Hetchy | |
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| Michael M. O'Shaughnessy | |
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| A Debatable Masterpiece | |
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| Hail, the Chief! | |
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| The Thought Shapers | |
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| The Scott Brothers: Arms and the Overland Monthly | |
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| Commemorating the Soldiers of an Unnamed War | |
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| San Francisco Bay as Pacific Launchpad | |
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| The Union Iron Works | |
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| The Overland Monthly | |
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| Spanish-American War | |
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| War with the Filipinos | |
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| The Inexhaustible Philippines | |
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| Japan Buys Armaments | |
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| Monumental Messages for the Masses | |
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| A Protracted War of Kindness | |
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| Imperial Designs for San Francisco | |
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| Racial Solutions | |
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| The Yellow Peril | |
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| San Francisco Segregates Its Schools | |
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| Predictions of a Racial Apocalypse | |
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| The Cruise of the Great White Fleet | |
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| An Ever-Expanding Military | |
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| The De Youngs: Society Invents Itself | |
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| Refracting Reality | |
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| San Francisco's Parallel Aristocracies | |
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| The Blackjack Press | |
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| Exit Charles De Young | |
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| The Spreckels-De Young Feud | |
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| Enter Willie Hearst | |
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| The Call Attacks | |
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| The Midwinter Fair | |
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| Arthur McEwen's Letter | |
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| The Utility of High Culture | |
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| Chronicle of Empire | |
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| The San Francisco Graft Prosecution | |
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| Rehabilitating Reputations | |
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| Stuffing the Cat into the Bag | |
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| Family Value | |
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| Exposure Avoided | |
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| Organs of Expansion | |
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| The Hearsts: Racial Supremacy and the Digestion of "All Mexico" | |
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| Xanadu by the Pacific | |
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| Manifest Destiny and "the Texas Game" | |
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| Mexican-American War and the "All Mexico" Faction | |
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| Indigestible Races | |
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| The Filibusters | |
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| Permeable Boundaries | |
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| Young Hearst | |
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| Tied to Mom's Apron Strings | |
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| War Impresario | |
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| The Hearst Enigma | |
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| A Private Empire in Mexico | |
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| Peru, Too | |
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| Hearst Recommends | |
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| Dulce e Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori | |
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| White Supremacy | |
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| Belated Independence | |
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| Hard Right Turn | |
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| Coordinated Enterprises | |
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| Editing History | |
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| Remote Control | |
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| Toward Limitless Energy | |
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| Imperial Energy | |
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| A Dearth of Coal | |
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| Electrical Dawn | |
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| The California Oil Kings | |
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| Drowning in Oil | |
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| Pacific Gas and Electric | |
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| Dynastic Power & Water | |
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| Hetch Hetchy Energy | |
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| "Greater San Francisco" | |
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| The Dream City and the Real | |
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| More for War | |
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| Radium, and Beyond | |
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| The University, the Gate, and "the Gadget" | |
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| Naming Berkeley | |
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| Seeking Funds | |
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| The Hearst University | |
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| The Greek Connection | |
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| Destiny's Gun Sight | |
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| The Pacific Commercial Museum | |
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| Professor Moses | |
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| "The Greater University" | |
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| The University Militant | |
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| Soldier President | |
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| University Critics | |
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| Right Thought | |
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| Building Science's Shrine | |
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| Lawrence and Oppenheimer | |
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| Engineer President | |
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| War Approaches | |
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| Birthing "the Baby" | |
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| Planning the Arms Race | |
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| The Costs of the Race Come Home | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Note on Sources | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |