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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Verdi at the Golden Gate: opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush years Author: Martin, George Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music \| History \| Opera \| Composers \| American Studies \| California and the West \| European History Publisher's Description: Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco, . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Art of the gold rush Author: Driesbach, Janice Tolhurst Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden Stat . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: No there there: race, class, and political community in Oakland Author: Rhomberg, Chris 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology \| Anthropology \| American Studies \| Labor Studies \| Politics \| Ethnic Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-c . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewel of the desert: Japanese American internment at Topaz Author: Taylor, Sandra C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Asian American Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area - the vast majority of whom were American citizens - were moved to an assembly center at Tan . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco Author: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Asian American Studies \| Women's Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men: living in urban Mexico Author: Napolitano, Valentina Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Sociology \| Medical Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborho . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Days of gold: the California Gold Rush and the American nation Author: Rohrbough, Malcolm J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| United States History \| American Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession - soon c . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: A golden state: mining and economic development in gold rush California Author: Rawls, James J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: California and the West \| American Studies \| Natural History \| Geography \| Californian and Western History \| United States History Publisher's Description: California's storied Gold Rush triggered momentous changes not only for the state, but also for the nation and the world. The economic impact of that epoch-making event is the focus of the second volume of the California History Sesquicentennial Series. The chapter contributors offer a range of pers . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pioneer urbanites: a social and cultural history of Black San Francisco Author: Daniels, Douglas Henry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies \| African American Studies \| Social Problems \| California and the West \| United States History Publisher's Description: The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transpor . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: City for sale: the transformation of San Francisco Author: Hartman, Chester W Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History \| Politics \| California and the West Publisher's Description: San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page news. In this revised edition of his highly regarded study of San Francisco's economic and political developmen . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush Author: Gutiérrez, Ramón A 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| United States History \| Native American Ethnicity \| Environmental Studies \| Natural History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Livable cities?: urban struggles for livelihood and sustainability Author: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Environmental Studies \| Social Problems \| Public Policy \| Political Theory \| Pacific Rim Studies \| Urban Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking. Since three-quarters of . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Gold: the California story Author: Hill, Mary 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Geology \| Natural History Publisher's Description: The discovery of gold in 1848 catapulted California into statehood and triggered environmental, social, political, and economic events whose repercussions are still felt today. Mary Hill combines her scientific training with a flair for storytelling to present the history of gold in California from . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between two islands: Dominican international migration Author: Grasmuck, Sherri Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| Latino Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. Between Two Islands is an interdisciplinary study of Do . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Picturing Chinatown: art and orientalism in San Francisco Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| California and the West \| Asian American Studies \| Photography \| Art History Publisher's Description: This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and ma . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Contesting citizenship in urban China: peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market Author: Solinger, Dorothy J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| China \| Anthropology \| Labor Studies \| Demography \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits tha . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Going for gold: men, mines, and migration Author: Moodie, T. Dunbar Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology \| African Studies \| Social Theory \| Men and Masculinity Publisher's Description: This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines the operation of local power structures and resistances, changes in production techniqu . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Buddha is hiding: refugees, citizenship, the new America Author: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Asian American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Urban Studies \| Sociology \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be sel . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Native place, city, and nation: regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 Author: Goodman, Bryna 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Plant migration: the dynamics of geographic patterning in seed plant species Author: Sauer, Jonathan D Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Geography \| Ecology \| Botany Publisher's Description: Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. Similar Items