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


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1.	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
2.	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
3.	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
4.	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
5.	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
6.	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
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Miles and me Author: Troupe, Quincy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music \| African American Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Contemporary Music \| Jazz Publisher's Description: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiog . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Three Mile Island: a nuclear crisis in historical perspective Author: Walker, J. Samuel Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| Technology and Instruments \| Environment \| Technology and Society \| United States History Publisher's Description: Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released The China Syndrome, featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appears to be a serious accident at a nuclear power plant. In a spectacular coincidence, on March 28, 1979, less than two weeks after the movie came out, the worst . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	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
10.	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
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hazardous metropolis: flooding and urban ecology in Los Angeles Author: Orsi, Jared 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Urban Studies \| Water \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 floo . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visions of charity: volunteer workers and moral community Author: Allahyari, Rebecca Anne 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Religion \| Ethics \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what voluntee . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bottled poetry: Napa winemaking from Prohibition to the modern era Author: Lapsley, James T Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| Viticulture \| Wine Publisher's Description: California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James Lapsley's entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the region and its wines following the repeal o . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Spanish redemption: heritage, power, and loss on New Mexico's upper Rio Grande Author: Montgomery, Charles H 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentie . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: LifePlace: bioregional thought and practice Author: Thayer, Robert L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Conservation \| Public Policy \| California and the West \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. LifePlace is a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to l . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications Author: Kuhn, Gerald G Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Geography \| California and the West \| Marine and Freshwater Sciences \| Geology \| Ecology Publisher's Description: California's coastal zones are areas of extreme vulnerability, subject to the vicissitudes of weather and prone to erosion, landslides, and flooding. Gerald Kuhn and Francis Shepard examine and analyze these threats to coastal stability in a thought-provoking and detailed study of the coastal area o . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Battling for American labor: wobblies, craft workers, and the making of the union movement Author: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| History \| United States History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank-and-file workers and the character of their unions. Battling for American Labor answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive c . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: William Mulholland and the rise of Los Angeles Author: Mulholland, Catherine 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct - a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal - that brought . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Disaster hits home: new policy for urban housing recovery Author: Comerio, Mary C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results fill our television screens and newspapers. Mary C. Comerio is interested in what happens in the weeks and months after such disasters, particularly in the recovery of damaged housing.Through case studies . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: California rivers and streams: the conflict between fluvial process and land use Author: Mount, Jeffrey F 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| California and the West \| Ecology \| Geography Publisher's Description: California Rivers and Streams provides a clear and informative overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. Jeffrey Mount introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in . . . [more] Similar Items