California: A History, Paperback

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

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...

"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...

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

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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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

"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...

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

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

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. ...

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. 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 ...

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

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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. 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. 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...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

Called by Plutarch 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors, ' Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the fir...

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Reducere. The exhortation to "Go West " has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels pro...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan C. EdwardsIllustration(s): 22 b-w photographs, 5 mapsNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Reducere. On the night the SS rounded up the Jews of his Ukrainian ghetto, eighteen-year-old Yosel Epelbaum crawled on his hands and knees to a nearby forest...

Reducere. Discover the Road Less TraveledThere has been a renaissance in Masonic writings over the last quarter century. The academic world has rediscovered ...

This landmark study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural pro...

Reducere. DescriptionSurfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of sur...

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. An important voice for her people by the first published Native American female authorLucy Thompson (or to give her the correct Yurok name Che-na-w...

From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava's classic treatise on th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Timothy RennerWhether presented comedically in popular culture or explored as a serious scientific curiosity, giant, hairy,...