California: A History

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

A history of the United States' systematic expulsion of "undesirables" and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers who travelled from ...

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...

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

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...

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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 ...

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

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. 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 ...

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...

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

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

"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. 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...

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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. 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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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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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. 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...