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| 61. |  | Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California  Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | California and the West | Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: Observations in Lower California Author: Baegert, Jacob 1717-1772 Published: University of California Press, 1979 Subjects: History | United States History | California and the West | Californian and Western History Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: On her own terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the rise of science in the American West Author: Stein, Barbara R 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | History of Science | Paleontology | California and the West | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer, and founder and patron of two natural history museums at the University of Cali . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: On the edge of America: California modernist art, 1900-1950 Author: Karlstrom, Paul J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 65. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 66. |  | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 67. |  | Title: Painting on the left: Diego Rivera, radical politics, and San Francisco's public murals Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art | Art History | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W. Lee's fascinating book. Led by Rivera, these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 68. |  | 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 |
| 69. |  | 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 |
| 70. |  | Title: Postsuburban California: the transformation of Orange County since World War II Author: 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 71. |  | Title: Race, police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 Author: Escobar, Edward J 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | California and the West | Latin American History | Latino Studies | Social Problems | Politics | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | Criminology | Criminology Publisher's Description: In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 72. |  | Title: Railroad crossing: Californians and the railroad, 1850-1910 Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the great migration to the Great Depression Author: Monroy, Douglas Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Latino Studies | United States History | California and the West Publisher's Description: This sweeping, vibrant narrative chronicles the history of the Mexican community in Los Angeles. Douglas Monroy unravels the dramatic, complex story of Mexican immigration to Los Angeles during the early decades of the twentieth century and shows how Mexican immigrants re-created their lives and the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | Title: Ritual ground: Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest Author: Comer, Douglas C Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 75. |  | 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 |
| 76. |  | Title: Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood glamour photography Author: Dance, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Photography | California and the West Publisher's Description: When Ruth Harriet Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio with "more stars than there are in heaven," she was twenty-two years old and the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the Hollywood studios. In a career that lasted from 1925 until 1930, Louise (born Ruth Goldstein) photogr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 77. |  | 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 |
| 78. |  | Title: The second gold rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II Author: Johnson, Marilynn S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | American Studies | California and the West | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Are . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 79. |  | 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 |
| 80. |  | Title: Sierra Nevada: the naturalist's companion Author: Johnston, Verna R Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Environmental Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: All lovers of the mountains will welcome Verna Johnston's new and completely updated edition of her classic, Sierra Nevada , originally published in 1970. A professional biologist, veteran ornithologist, and well-known wildlife photographer, Johnston is the perfect guide for a natural-history trip i . . . [more] Similar Items |