San Diego has a rich and unique cultural history that can be effectively told through the commemoration of its dead. Local cemeteries throughout the city reflect San Diego's multiethnic cultural dynamism and pinpoint marked shifts in power from Native American to Spanish to Mexican to American governance. They also reveal the current struggle for space in a burgeoning metropolis. Graveyards, with their individually detailed and hauntingly beautiful monuments, offer an unrivaled historic yet continuous glimpse at the essence of this diverse community. The story of San Diego's cemeteries is a telling narrative that offers remarkable insight into the evolution of America's Finest City.
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In this new volume, authors Seth Mallios and David M. Caterino present the results of the San Diego Gravestone Project, which includes the discovery of many lost San Diego cemeteries that have been unceremoniously erased from the current landscape. Mallios, associate professor and chair of the anthropology department at San Diego State University, and Caterino, coordinator of the South Coastal Information Center, present here a detailed photographic record of the city's historic graveyards over the past three centuries.
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Great pictoral history of San Diego's almost forgotten past,
By BK in SD (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cemeteries of San Diego (CA) (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback)
Southern Californians have a short memory about history. What's so fascinating about this gravestone project is that it ends up illuminating San Diego's past and brings it to life - albeit through those no longer living. It's much more than a book about cemeteries, but as all good historians do, it uses its subject matter as a lens to understand more about people and place.
Great photos and documentation throughout.
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San Diego, Calvary Cemetery, Old Town, Holy Cross, Mount Hope Cemetery, Point Loma, Greenwood Memorial Park, World War, Protestant Cemetery, Yankee Jim, Presidio Hill, United States, Father Uhach, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Naval Training Center, Post Cemetery, Princess Filomena, San Diegans, Battle of San Pasqual, Mission Hills New!
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San Diego, Calvary Cemetery, Old Town, Holy Cross, Mount Hope Cemetery, Point Loma, Greenwood Memorial Park, World War, Protestant Cemetery, Yankee Jim, Presidio Hill, United States, Father Uhach, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Naval Training Center, Post Cemetery, Princess Filomena, San Diegans, Battle of San Pasqual, Mission Hills New!
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