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| 1. |  | Title: Environment and experience: settlement culture in nineteenth-century Oregon  Author: Boag, Peter G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: The pioneer battling with a hostile environment - whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters - is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Land mammals of Oregon Author: Verts, B. J Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Zoology | Biology | Natural History Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of mammals in the state of Oregon since 1936, when Vernon Bailey's The Mammals and Life Zones of Oregon was published. It provides a basic reference for mammalogists, wildlife biologists, students, and anyone interested in mammalian life in the n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Twenty thousand roads: women, movement, and the West Author: Scharff, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history - our restless, relentle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Industrial cowboys: Miller & Lux and the transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 Author: Igler, David 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies | California and the West | Agriculture | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Protecting motherhood: Women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany Author: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | German Studies Publisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society's conceptions of gender difference and "woman's place." He investigates the social, economic, and political status of women in West Germany after World War II to reveal how the West Ger . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Rugged justice: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 Author: Frederick, David C Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Law Publisher's Description: Few chapters in American judicial history have enjoyed as colorful a past as has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Created in 1891, its jurisdiction now encompasses California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska. David Frederick has mined archival . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Sierra Nevada: the naturalist's companion Author: Johnston, Verna R Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Environmental Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: All lovers of the mountains will welcome Verna Johnston's new and completely updated edition of her classic, Sierra Nevada , originally published in 1970. A professional biologist, veteran ornithologist, and well-known wildlife photographer, Johnston is the perfect guide for a natural-history trip i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Water and American government: the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Author: Pisani, Donald J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Water | Public Policy | Geography | California and the West | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country - shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Magic lands: western cityscapes and American culture after 1940 Author: Findlay, John M 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | California and the West | American Studies | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes - Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - John Findlay shows how . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Translating property: the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900 Author: Montoya, María E 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Law | Latino Studies | California and the West | California and the West Publisher's Description: Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: West of the West: imagining California: an anthology Author: Michaels, Leonard 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Californian and Western History | American Literature | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically evident in the weather, geography, and people. This richly fascinating collection represents the experienc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Glaciers of California: modern glaciers, ice age glaciers, origin of Yosemite Valley, and a glacier tour in the Sierra Nevada Author: Guyton, Bill 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Geology | Natural History | California and the West | Geography Publisher's Description: Glaciers in sunny California? Many people will be surprised to learn that there are several hundred in this state, ranging in size from the impressive Whitney Glacier on Mt. Shasta and the Palisade Glacier in the Sierra Nevada to tiny glacierets. While California's glaciers are small compared to tho . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990 Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: On her own terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the rise of science in the American West Author: Stein, Barbara R 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | History of Science | Paleontology | California and the West | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer, and founder and patron of two natural history museums at the University of Cali . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: California soul: music of African Americans in the West Author: DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | African American Studies | American Studies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | Contemporary Music | Jazz Publisher's Description: This new series, co-sponsored with The Center for Black Music Research of Columbia College, seeks to increase our understanding of black music genres and their importance to the cultures of the Atlantic world, including their influence on African musical styles. Books in the series will examine the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Sierra crossing: first roads to California Author: Howard, Thomas Frederick 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: California and the West | Californian and Western History | Geography | United States History Publisher's Description: A critical era in California's history and development - the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada - is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936 Author: Haas, Lisbeth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | American Studies | Gender Studies | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mi . . . [more] Similar Items |