California: A History

Reducere. Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concent...

Reducere. Texas and California are the leaders of Red and Blue America. As the nation has polarized, its most populous and economically powerful states have ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of California, then keep reading...Three manuscripts in one book: History of California: A Captivat...

Reducere. There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Allan A. SchoenherrIn this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history...

Contributor(s): Author: Harold G. MarcusIn this eminently readable, concise history of Ethiopia, Harold Marcus surveys the evolution of the oldest ...

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DescriptionThe long car carried the men down into the depths of the Empire Gold Mine outside of Grass Valley, California. The year is 1850. These m...

Reducere. Orange, California, a city that started small, but grew big on the promise, sweat and toil of agriculture. Born from the breakup of the old Rancho ...

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Reducere. The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man an...

Reducere. In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regar...

Reducere. After World War II, suburbs proliferated around California cities as returning soldiers traded in their uniforms for business suits. After-hours le...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 42 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 322Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 178 x 253 x 31C...

Reducere. Description"Driving through Northern California, you will find sprawling military bases, immense wineries, gold mining towns, and amusement parks a...

Reducere. "You have to take the children away."--Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for pol...

"You have to take the children away."--Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for pol...

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Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three war...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter World War II, suburbs proliferated around California cities as returning soldiers traded in their uniforms for business suits. Aft...

Reducere. Welcome to the delta--California style! Over 1, 000 miles of waterways lure sportsmen, boaters, and outdoor enthusiasts to the largest estuary in t...

A chronical of one of the most controversial art movements of the 20th century. A broad range of articles trace the emergence of the movement in En...

Reducere. If you want to discover the influential and captivating history of California, then read on...California's transformation into the most populous st...

Reducere. If you want to discover the influential and captivating history of California, then read on...California's transformation into the most populous st...

To Life Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic respons...

Reducere. Tiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized abor...

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Reducere. BEGINNING WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION of Indian Valley, Pat continues with descriptions of Mountain Maidu life upon the arrival of white men ...

Reducere. The long car carried the men down into the depths of the Empire Gold Mine outside of Grass Valley, California. The year is 1850. These men are work...

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book offers an ana...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David J. MeltzerMore than 12, 000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America,...

DescriptionWhere previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural hi...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent...

Reducere. DescriptionThirsty is the history of Los Angeles and its fraught relationship with water. As a city on the make since the early twentieth century, ...

Reducere. In the first edition of this book, I began by saying that my purpose was not to write a typical municipal history. That still stands. Too often suc...

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The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court a...

Reducere. Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much ...

Herschel B. Chipp's Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and inter...

Reducere. Spanning from the early 1900s through the 1960's, this nostalgic ride through Northern California and Oregon is one of the most highly visual histo...

Reducere. While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small to...

Description"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."--Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and po...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Federico FinchelsteinNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 209 x 13Cover ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Yann PotinIllustration(s): 10 mapsTranslator: Juliana FroggattNumber of pages: 360Publication d...

"The book will lead to a reinterpretation of the history of western morals. . . . It's an excellent book."--Baruch A. Brody, Baylor College of Medi...

Reducere. Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a pr...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Darra GoldsteinIllustration(s): 16 b-w photographs, 1 mapNumber of pages: 200Collection: Califo...

Few states of the United States have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little t...

Reducere. This is the first comprehensive and contemporary history of the largest and most diverse public system of higher education in the United States. Se...

Reducere. This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fre...

Reducere. DescriptionThe richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the h...

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Presents th portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture - from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements....

Reducere. The first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. The power of the hunger strike lies in its utt...

Reducere. This alternative guidebook for one of the world's most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people's New York City. ...

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Reducere. This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to ...

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Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, ...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Ko...

Reducere. 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today's costly, e...

Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts we...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C., the Romans i...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

DescriptionEusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries o...