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161. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/6b/ft0k40036b/figures/ft0k40036b_cover.jpg) | Title: Postsuburban California: the transformation of Orange County since World War IIAuthor: Kling, Rob Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Sociology | United States History | American Studies | California and the West | Urban Studies | Californian and Western HistoryPublisher's Description: Neither a city nor a traditional suburb, Orange County, California represents a striking example of a new kind of social formation. This multidisciplinary volume offers a cogent case study of the "postsuburban" phenomenon. Similar Items | 162. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/8k/kt1d5nc48k/figures/kt1d5nc48k_cover.jpg) | Title: Wide-open town: a history of queer San Francisco to 1965Author: Boyd, Nan Alamilla 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Sociology | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant mili . . . [more]Similar Items | 163. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/ch/ft3f59n8ch/figures/ft3f59n8ch_cover.jpg) | Title: America calling: a social history of the telephone to 1940Author: Fischer, Claude S 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Sociology | United States History | Technology and Society | History and Philosophy of Science | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology - how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histori . . . [more]Similar Items | 164. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/hs/kt7m3nc9hs/figures/kt7m3nc9hs_cover.jpg) | Title: Water and American government: the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935Author: 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 165. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/jj/ft587006jj/figures/ft587006jj_cover.jpg) | Title: Magic lands: western cityscapes and American culture after 1940Author: 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 166. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/jk/ft4779n9jk/figures/ft4779n9jk_cover.jpg) | Title: California soul: music of African Americans in the WestAuthor: 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 | JazzPublisher'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 | 167. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/jq/ft4k4005jq/figures/ft4k4005jq_cover.jpg) | Title: One step from the White House: the rise and fall of Senator William F. Knowland Author: Montgomery, Gayle B 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: During the Cold War years of the 1950s, William F. Knowland was one of the most important figures in American politics. As the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, the wealthy California newspaper heir was recognized and respected by millions. His influence with President Eisenhower led to Earl War . . . [more]Similar Items | 168. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/jz/kt1s2018jz/figures/kt1s2018jz_cover.jpg) | Title: Outspoken: free speech storiesAuthor: Levinson, Nan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Media Studies | Public Policy | Sociology | Law | Public Policy | Urban Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: With the government granting itself sweeping new surveillance powers, castigating its critics as unpatriotic, and equating differing opinions with abetting "America's enemies," free speech seems an early casualty of the war on terrorism. But as this book brilliantly demonstrates, to sacrifice our fr . . . [more]Similar Items | 169. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/p4/ft3r29n8p4/figures/ft3r29n8p4_cover.jpg) | Title: In Search of equality: the Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century AmericaAuthor: McClain, Charles J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Law | California and the West | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | American Studies | Asian American StudiesPublisher's Description: Charles McClain's illuminating new study probes Chinese efforts to battle manifold discrimination - in housing, employment, and education - in nineteenth-century America. Challenging the stereotypical image of a passive, insular group, McClain reveals a politically savvy population capable of mobili . . . [more]Similar Items | 170. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/qj/ft1r29n7qj/figures/ft1r29n7qj_cover.jpg) | | 171. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/qj/ft2g5004qj/figures/ft2g5004qj_cover.jpg) | Title: Western times and water wars: state, culture, and rebellion in CaliforniaAuthor: 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 172. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/r3/ft758007r3/figures/ft758007r3_cover.jpg) | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 173. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/v2/ft058002v2/figures/ft058002v2_cover.jpg) | Title: Border correspondent: selected writings, 1955-1970 Author: Salazar, Ruben 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | United States History | Media Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary hist . . . [more]Similar Items | 174. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/5r/ft509nb35r/figures/ft509nb35r_cover.jpg) | Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990Author: 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 175. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/66/kt2v19q266/figures/kt2v19q266_cover.jpg) | Title: Industrial cowboys: Miller & Lux and the transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920Author: 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 BusinessPublisher'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 | 176. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/pq/ft909nb5pq/figures/ft909nb5pq_cover.jpg) | Title: Contested Eden: California before the Gold RushAuthor: 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 177. | ![cover](https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/bt/ft600007bt/figures/ft600007bt_cover.jpg) | Title: Dearest beloved: the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family Author: Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter) 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne - for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness - was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected . . . [more]Similar Items |
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