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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: The fruits of natural advantage: making the industrial countryside in California Author: Stoll, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies | California and the West | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: The once arid valleys and isolated coastal plains of California are today the center of fruit production in the United States. Steven Stoll explains how a class of capitalist farmers made California the nation's leading producer of fruit and created the first industrial countryside in America. This . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | Title: Los Angeles and the automobile: the making of the modern city Author: Bottles, Scott L Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: American Studies | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history. Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Best friends and marriage: exchange among women  Author: Oliker, Stacey J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friends . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: True gardens of the gods: Californian-Australian environmental reform, 1860-1930 Author: Tyrrell, Ian R Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | California and the West | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to these challenges, environmental reformers at . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | Title: Same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest Author: Boag, Peter Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | Men and Masculinity | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young ur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies | Geography | Politics Publisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | Title: Big business and industrial conflict in nineteenth-century France: a social history of the Parisian Gas Company Author: Berlanstein, Lenard R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Deceit and denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollution Author: Markowitz, Gerald E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Public Policy | United States History Publisher's Description: Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth century Author: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: What machines can't do: politics and technology in the industrial enterprise Author: Thomas, Robert Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Economics and Business | Politics | Sociology | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Virtually every manufacturing company has plans for an automated "factory of the future." But Robert J. Thomas argues that smart machines may not hold the key to an industrial renaissance. In this provocative and enlightening book, he takes us inside four successful manufacturing enterprises to reve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Crossing the border: encounters between homeless people and outreach workers Author: Rowe, Michael 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Psychology | American Studies | Urban Studies | Social Problems | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The relationship between the homeless and the social service community marks a border where the disenfranchised meet the mainstream of society. Crossing the Border , the first book-length study of outreach work to the mentally ill homeless, uses ethnographic tools to examine encounters at this borde . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | Title: Proletarians of the North: a history of Mexican industrial workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 Author: Vargas, Zaragosa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | United States History | Latino Studies | Chicano Studies Publisher's Description: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, over 58,000 Mexicans journeyed to the Midwest in search of employment. Many found work in agriculture, but thousands more joined the growing ranks of the industrial proletariat. Throughout the northern Midwest, and especially in Detroit, Mexic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The state and labor in modern Japan Author: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | Politics | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more] Similar Items |