Empire Builder : John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego

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Empire Builder : John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego

Bonura, Sandra E./ Spiekermann, Uwe (FRW)

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University of Nebraska Press（2020/11発売）
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ポイント 66pt

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781496222916
DDC分類 338.092

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Winner of the 2021 San Diego Book Award

Empire Builder is the previously untold story of a pioneer who almost singlehandedly transformed the bankrupt village of San Diego into a thriving city. When he first dropped anchor in San Diego Bay in 1887, John Diedrich Spreckels set into motion a series of events that later defined the city. Within just a few years, this son of the German immigrant Claus Spreckels, known as the "Sugar King," owned and controlled the majority of San Diego's industry. After successfully building empires in sugar, shipping, and transportation and building development along the coast of California and across the Pacific, Spreckels rubbed shoulders with world leaders, successfully sued the U.S. government twice, and contributed to numerous educational, charitable, and cultural institutions in San Diego and San Francisco.

Despite the fact that Spreckels created and owned much of San Diego's early twentieth-century infrastructure, his name is unknown to many contemporary San Diegans. Nobody could have foreseen that Spreckels's empire would be all but forgotten in so short a time. Sandra E. Bonura strives to correct this oversight by providing a behind-the-scenes look at Spreckels and his family's role in business. This deeply researched biography paints a realistic portrait of cultural, economic, and political aspects of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century California.

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Uwe Spiekermann
Acknowledgments
Prologue: "It's Hell for the 'One Man' in the One-Man Town"
1. Chasing the Sweet American Dream
2. Taking Hawai'i by Storm
3. Crazed Land Boom and Bust
4. Sugar and Strife
5. Aloha Hawai'i
6. Raising the Spreckels Clan
7. Roots in San Francisco
8. Building San Diego's Infrastructure
9. Earthquake, Death, and Legal (and Romantic) Chaos
10. Influencing San Diego Politics
11. Coronado's Uncle John
12. The So-Called Impossible Railroad
13. Building Up Broadway
14. John and the Wobblies
15. Gifting the Panama-California Exposition and the Zoo
16. Standing Up to the U.S. Government
17. The Cruel 1920s
18. The Departed Skipper
Epilogue: Breaking Up the Empire
Notes on Sources and Research
Notes
Bibliography
Index