California: A History

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...

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

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

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

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, ...

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...

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

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. 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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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. 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...

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. 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...

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. ...

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

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...

Reducere. The never-before-told true story of Jane Elliott and the "Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment" she made world-famous, using eye color to simulate raci...

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

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

"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. "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. 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. 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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

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In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally i...

A sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the c...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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