Mining California: An Ecological History

Reducere. An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little av...

Reducere. Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought mo...

Reducere. This highly readable, spectacularly illustrated compendium is an ecological journey into a wondrous land of extremes. The California Deserts explor...

DescriptionDid you know that an estimated 5, 000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black histor...

In this illustrated history, Alastair Cameron explores the history and heritage of the slate mining industry in the Lake District.

Gold drew stampeders to Alaska's Innoko river region in 1906, when the town of Ophir was founded. More than 40 years later, the unchanging, governm...

DescriptionIn the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken,...

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nationPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): John Mack Faragher...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Stuart KirschIllustration(s): 15 b-w illustrations and 3 mapNumber of pages: 328Publication dat...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Copper mining is as ubiquitous to the Upper Peninsula of Michi...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Copper mining is as ubiquitous to the Upper Peninsula of Michi...

Reducere. Idaho Library Association Book AwardJulie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it pulled her back. Only when she ret...

Reducere. On the morning of May 27, 1896, the peaceful township of Campbell awoke to shocking news. Six people were brutally murdered at the home of Colonel ...

DescriptionAgricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz...

Reducere. YOU are a New Englander with a bad case of gold fever. Gold has been discovered in California, and you want to go claim some for yourself. Will you...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rosina LozanoAn American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the ...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our...

Reducere. DescriptionA narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans ...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Patricio FloresIllustration(s): 20 b-w photographsNumber of pages: 162Collection: Critical Envi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1859, 100, 000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50, 000 completed the trip. An additional 25, 000 soo...

Combining fresh approaches with a historical synthesis, this work presents general history of French Indochina. Focusing on economic, social, intel...

Reducere. "In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."--Noam Chomsky "No one who ventures an opi...

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. A New York Times BestsellerOn October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, ...

Publisher: PiXZ BooksAuthor(s): Bruce BoultonIllustration(s): Illustrated in colour throughoutNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

DescriptionBetween 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. ...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

Southeastern Arizona has one of the most diverse mining localities in the state. Towns such as Bisbee, Clifton, Globe, Miami, Ray, Silverbell, and ...

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 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...

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Reducere. Presents the documented history of how the Navajo people lived, how they worked and how they died waiting for compassionate federal compensation fo...

Reducere. Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices, is part eco-poetry collection, part memoir, part Quapaw history. In this fascinating, well-researched boo...

Shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines ...

A reference to commonly occurring organisms. With over 400 colour photographs, it looks first at the physical and biological features that determin...

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...