UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	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
2.	Requires cookie*	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
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Battling the inland sea: American political culture, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 Author: Kelley, Robert Lloyd 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Politics Publisher's Description: In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Death Valley & the Amargosa: a land of illusion Author: Lingenfelter, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| United States History Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The political economy of mountain Java: an interpretive history Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian History \| Sociology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia \| Politics Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Earth Sciences \| California and the West \| Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Life's origin: the beginnings of biological evolution Author: Schopf, J. William 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology \| Paleontology \| Astronomy \| Evolution \| Earth Sciences \| Physical Sciences Publisher's Description: Always a controversial and compelling topic, the origin of life on Earth was considered taboo as an area of inquiry for science as recently as the 1950s. Since then, however, scientists working in this area have made remarkable progress, and an overall picture of how life emerged is coming more clea . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Slide Mountain, or, The folly of owning nature Author: Steinberg, Theodore 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Law \| Environmental Studies \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere - from suburban picket fences to elaborate schemes to own underground water, clouds, even the ocean floor.Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonst . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The ford Author: Austin, Mary Hunter 1868-1934 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Fiction \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates one of the crucial issues in California history - the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. Ranging from the eastern Sierra to the financial district in San Francisco, the plot portrays the frenzied speculation in land and resources, labor protests, and femi . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 Author: Johnson, David Alan 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold o . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Western times and water wars: state, culture, and rebellion in California Author: Walton, John 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Politics \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| Social Theory \| Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: Western Times and Water Wars chronicles more than a hundred years of tumultuous events in the history of California's Owens Valley. From the pioneer conquest of the native inhabitants to the infamous destruction of the valley's agrarian economy by water-hungry Los Angeles, this legendary setting is . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilization Author: Kotkin, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly ag . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj Author: Kennedy, Dane Keith Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| European History \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	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
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920 Author: Wigen, Kären 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Geography \| Asian History \| Japan Publisher's Description: Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central Ja . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: A Chinese bestiary: strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas = [Shan hai jing] Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art \| Asian Literature \| China \| Folklore and Mythology \| Asian History Publisher's Description: A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mounta . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The imaginary puritan: literature, intellectual labor, and the origins of personal life Author: Armstrong, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature Publisher's Description: Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who litera . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography \| Cultural Anthropology \| Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aristocratic experience and the origins of modern culture: France, 1570-1715 Author: Dewald, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture explores a crucial moment in the history of European selfhood. During the seventeenth century, French nobles began to understand their lives in terms of personal histories and inner qualities, rather than as the products of tradition and inhe . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Migrant daughter: coming of age as a Mexican American woman Author: Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel 1931- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Women's Studies \| Chicano Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T. García, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American . . . [more] Similar Items