Shanghaied in San Francisco (Maritime)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (951 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0964731223 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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VWood said One Star. Boring!!!. A good read and very informative Peter Kasin Shanghaied In San Francisco details a system by which cargo ships sailing out of San Francisco were assured a full complement of sailors. Shanghaing - forcing men aboard sailing ships by essentially kidnapping them - was indeed a system, buttressed by agreements between ship captains and the crimps who supplied them with sailors, by politicians who knew that without full crews to sail the ships the city's economy would crumble, and by support within police and fire departments. Shanghaiing existed in every major port around the world, but the term originated in San Francisco from the clipper tea trade with China. When the clippe. Shanghaied Good information on a little-known issue in local history. Overly long and repetitive--shoiuld have been an article, rather than a book.
Bill took up rowing after his arrival and became fascinated with San Francisco's waterfront past. . Bill Pickelhaupt was born and educated in Michigan and moved to San Francisco in 1984. Although he works in the city's Financial District by day, he has found time to write Shanghaied in San Francisco and Club Rowing on San Francisco
Also reviewed by the Chinese language newspaper Sing Tao Daily on December 15, 1996. The politics and experiences of shanghaiing in San Francisco from 1887-1890 are related in a fine history which gathers the accounts of men who were shanghaied as well as considering the social and political elements of shanghaiing. -- Midwest Book ReviewWe highly recommend this book for several reasons: 1) it is hugely entertaining and, unlike many books on the subject, factual; 2) it is a well-researched book that deals straightforwardly with one of the most colorful times in the history of San Francisco; and 3) it shows what can be done with the plethora of information at the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library. --Latitude 38, December 1996. Latitude 38, December 1996. He read an oral history of an old sailor who had been shanghaied and the idea took off. Primary materials provide the foundation for a lively San Francisco history which p
Shanghaied in San Francisco documents one of San Francisco's wildest periods with footnotes and 79 photographs and line-drawings. This non-fiction book chronicles the history of kidnapping of men to serve as sailors in San Francisco from 1849-1910. Bibliography, glossary, index.. The criminal activity, the economic underpinnings for shanghaiing and the political system which protected the practice for over 60 years are explored