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21. | | 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 | 22. | | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of StanfordAuthor: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Dark side of fortune: triumph and scandal in the life of oil tycoon Edward L. DohenyAuthor: Davis, Margaret L Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Dark Side of Fortune contains all the elements of a Hollywood thriller. Filling in one of the most important gaps in the history of the American West, Margaret Leslie Davis's riveting biography follows Edward L. Doheny's fascinating story from his days as an itinerant prospector in the dangerous jun . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Dark sweat, white gold: California farm workers, cotton, and the New DealAuthor: Weber, Devra 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Latino Studies | Labor Studies | California and the West | African HistoryPublisher's Description: In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations. She . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Days of gold: the California Gold Rush and the American nationAuthor: 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 26. | | Title: Death Valley & the Amargosa: a land of illusionAuthor: Lingenfelter, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | California and the West | United States HistorySimilar Items | 27. | | Title: Disaster hits home: new policy for urban housing recoveryAuthor: Comerio, Mary C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies | Public Policy | Economics and Business | California and the WestPublisher'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 | 28. | | Title: Encarnación's kitchen: Mexican recipes from nineteenth-century California: selections from Encarnación Pinedo's El cocinero españolAuthor: Pinedo, Encarnación b. 1848 Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Food and Cooking | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Ethnic Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In 1991 Ruth Reichl, then a Los Angeles Times food writer, observed that much of the style now identified with California cuisine, and with nouvelle cuisine du Mexique, was practiced by Encarnación Pinedo a century earlier. A landmark of American cuisine first published in 1898 as El cocinero españo . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: The fordAuthor: Austin, Mary Hunter 1868-1934 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | California and the WestPublisher'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 | 30. | | Title: Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890Author: Johnson, David Alan 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the WestPublisher'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 | 31. | | Title: The fragmented metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930Author: Fogelson, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Urban Studies | California and the West | Geography | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 - a city whose distinctive structure, character, and . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | 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 | 33. | | Title: The fruits of natural advantage: making the industrial countryside in CaliforniaAuthor: Stoll, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies | California and the West | Labor StudiesPublisher'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 | 34. | | Title: Garrett Eckbo: modern landscapes for living Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Art History | California and the WestPublisher's Description: One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrate . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Glaciers of California: modern glaciers, ice age glaciers, origin of Yosemite Valley, and a glacier tour in the Sierra NevadaAuthor: Guyton, Bill 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Geology | Natural History | California and the West | GeographyPublisher'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 | 36. | | Title: Global climate change and California: potential impacts and responses Author: Knox, Joseph B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | California and the WestPublisher's Description: California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change - temperature increases, water shortages . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Gold: the California storyAuthor: Hill, Mary 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: California and the West | Californian and Western History | Geology | Natural HistoryPublisher'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 | 38. | | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, archite . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | California and the West | Intellectual History | Californian and Western History | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Golden daysAuthor: See, Carolyn Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work . . . [more]Similar Items |
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