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Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880
ISBN: 9780874176971 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian Maria Raquel Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. She finds that, far from being pawns in a male-dominated society, Californianas of all classes were often active and determined creators of their own destinies, finding ways to choose their mates, to leave unsatisfactory marriages, and to maintain themselves economically. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources in English and Spanish, Casas unveils a...
Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian Maria Raquel...
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The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
ISBN: 9780292717558 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, Gold Award in Californiana, California Book Awards, Commonwealth Club of California, 2008 City plazas worldwide are centers of cultural expression and artistic display. They are settings for everyday urban life where daily interactions, economic exchanges, and informal conversations occur, thereby creating a socially meaningful place at the core of a city. At the heart of historic Los Angeles, the Plaza represents a quintessential public space where real and imagined narratives... Winner, Gold Award in Californiana, California Book Awards, Commonwealth Club of California, 2008 |
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Jews in Nevada : A History
ISBN: 9780874177374 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is the first comprehensive documented study of Jews in Nevada from 1850 to the present. It details their involvement in the development and fostering of the state's earliest settlements and its social and political institutions. Among the themes are: antisemitism, Jewish participation in civil rights initiatives, and the explosive growth of Jewry in the Las Vegas metropolitan area along with the development of an expanding Jewish cultural infrastructure. It includes victimized peddlers and modern millionaires, heroines and exploiters, underworld figures and philanthropists, as well...
The book is the first comprehensive documented study of Jews in Nevada from 1850 to the present. It details their involvement in the development and f...
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Murder of a Landscape: The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897-1916
ISBN: 9780870623967 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A little-known story of big environmental damage in the Golden State
A little-known story of big environmental damage in the Golden State
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Savage Frontier Volume IV: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1842-1845
ISBN: 9781574412932 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fourth and final volume of the "Savage Frontier" series completes the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas era. During this period of time, fabled Captain John Coffee Hays and his small band of Rangers were often the only government-authorized frontier fighters employed to keep the peace.Author Stephen L. Moore covers the assembly of Texan forces to repel two Mexican incursions during 1842, the Vasquez and Woll invasions. This volume covers the resulting battle at Salado Creek, the defeat of Dawson's men, and a skirmish at Hondo Creek near San...
This fourth and final volume of the "Savage Frontier" series completes the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas ...
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An Archaeology of Desperation: Exploring the Donner Party's Alder Creek Camp
ISBN: 9780806142104 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving travelers stranded in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846 47. Combining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party s experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries.Centered on archaeological investigations in the summers of 2003 and 2004 near Truckee, California, the book includes detailed analyses of artifacts and...
The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving trav...
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The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh
ISBN: 9780874178852 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their search for wealth took them from San Francisco into the gold country and then over the Sierra into Nevada s Gold Canyon, where they placer-mined for gold and discovered a deposit of silver. The letters they sent back to their family offer vivid commentaries on the turbulent western frontier, the diverse society of the Gold Rush camps, and the heartbreaking labor and frustration of mining. Their lively descriptions of...
When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the C...
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Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands
ISBN: 9780806144467 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boundaries lines imposed on the landscape shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In "Creating the American West," historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a specific form of political organization that made the West truly American. Everett examines how settlers lobbied for boundaries and how politicians... Boundaries lines imposed on the landscape shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children atte... |
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The Second Pearl Harbor: The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944
ISBN: 9780806144764 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 1944, with American forces closing in on the Japanese mainland, the Fifth Fleet Amphibious Force was preparing to invade Saipan. Control of this island would put enemy cities squarely within range of the B-29 bomber. The navy had assembled a fleet of landing ship tanks (LSTs) in the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor. On May 21, an explosion tore through the calm afternoon sky, spreading fire and chaos through the ordnance-packed vessels. When the fires had been brought under control, six LSTs had been lost, many others were badly damaged, and more than 500 military personnel had... In May 1944, with American forces closing in on the Japanese mainland, the Fifth Fleet Amphibious Force was preparing to invade Saipan. Control ... |
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Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
ISBN: 9780803243842 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco, California, and the United States at the world s fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and...
When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vis...
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The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California: Reports of Topographical Engineers, 1849-1851
ISBN: 9780870624308 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the army's topographical engineer in California from 1849 to 1851, George Horatio Derby wrote detailed reports on the region, its people, its resources, and its geography--providing critical information for an understaffed military charged with bringing order to a vast new empire along the Pacific Slope. Early maps and reports by pioneers, trappers, and newspapermen, even by such professionals as John C. Fremont and William Emory, were limited in scope and often unreliable. In contrast, those authored by Derby and the army's other trained topographical engineers were remarkably accurate,...
As the army's topographical engineer in California from 1849 to 1851, George Horatio Derby wrote detailed reports on the region, its people, its resou...
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Restoring the Shining Waters: Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana
ISBN: 9780806144726 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program s National Priority List. Milltown, a place too small to warrant a listing in the U.S. Census, sat alongside a modest hydroelectric dam at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers. For three-quarters of a century, arsenic-laced waste from some of the world s largest copper-mining operations had accumulated behind the dam. Soon, Milltown became the site of Superfund... No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste si... |
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The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin
ISBN: 9780806149271 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple use concept, a management philosophy that promises equitable access to the region's resources and economic gain to those who live there. Multiple use was originally conceived as a way to legitimize the historical use of public lands for grazing without precluding future uses, such as... The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Ari... |
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The Genesis of Reno: The History of the Riverside Hotel and the Virginia Street Bridge
ISBN: 9781943859238 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 157 years ago--before there was a Reno, Nevada; before there was a state of Nevada; and even before there was a Nevada Territory--there was a bridge over the Truckee River at a narrow, deeply rutted cattle and wagon trail that would one day become Virginia Street. There was also a small rustic inn and tavern occupying a plot of ground at the southern end of the log-and-timber bridge, catering to thirsty cowboys, drovers, and miners. The inn and the bridge were the first two structures in what would one day be a bustling metropolitan area, and to this day they still form the nucleus of...
Over 157 years ago--before there was a Reno, Nevada; before there was a state of Nevada; and even before there was a Nevada Territory--there was a bri...
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Crush: The Triumph of California Wine
ISBN: 9781943859498 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world.
Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A ...
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Martha Hughes Cannon
ISBN: 9781607811336 / Angielski / DVD-ROM Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. She was a physician, the first female senator in the United States, an advocate, suffragette and a sister wife. Martha Hughes Cannon was a remarkable, complicated woman. KUED tells her compelling story in a new one-hour documentary. In many ways, Martha Hughes Cannon seemed to have it all, but the contrast between the polygamous culture of Utah and the Victorian culture dominating the rest of the country created complications and difficulties for her. Often unhappy and anxious, in later life she turned to self-medication. Struggling with both hardships and successes, Mattie faced issues that...
She was a physician, the first female senator in the United States, an advocate, suffragette and a sister wife. Martha Hughes Cannon was a remarkable,...
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A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes
ISBN: 9780806136516 / Angielski / Skórzana / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness ACT and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest Volume 2
ISBN: 9780806165011 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies
ISBN: 9780700637041 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850
ISBN: 9781469685052 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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