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Dodgerland: Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-78 Dodgers
ISBN: 9780803249400 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1977-78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squared off with the New York Yankees in consecutive World Series. The Dodgers' run was a long time in the making after years of struggle and featured many homegrown players who went on to noteworthy or Hall of Fame careers, including Don Sutton, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, and Steve Yeager. Dodgerland is the story of those memorable teams as Chavez Ravine began to change, baseball was about to enter a new era, and American culture experienced a shift to the "me" era.
Part... The 1977-78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squared off with the New York Yankees in consecutive Wor...
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231,02 |
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Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco
ISBN: 9781647791872 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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231,02 |
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Dark City. the Real Los Angeles Noir
ISBN: 9783836560764 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What s Wrong in Tinseltown?
The dark side of Los Angeles, 1920 1960 In the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a tarnished patina began to coat its ever-more glamorous facade. As thousands flocked to the city with their dreams and desires, so too came get-rich-quick schemes, phony religions, organized crime, and corruption. A visual history... What s Wrong in Tinseltown?
The dark side of Los Angeles, 1920 1960 In the years following World War I, Los... |
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231,21 |
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Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
ISBN: 9780195162011 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor--a cheap, unorganized, and powerless workforce. In 1965, when some 800 Filipino grape workers began to strike under the aegis of the AFL-CIO, the UFW soon joined the action with 2,000 Mexican workers and turned the strike into a civil rights struggle. They engaged in civil disobedience, mobilized support from churches and students, boycotted growers, and...
Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dram...
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231,29 |
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Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885-2011
ISBN: 9780822964483 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Coeur d Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Historically the globe s richest silver district and also one of the nation s biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d Alenes legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district s more than one hundred mines and mills and the air surrounding Kellogg, Idaho was laced with lead and other toxic heavy metals issuing from the Bunker Hill Company s smelter. The...
The Coeur d Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history....
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231,74 |
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Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill
ISBN: 9780822965329 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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231,74 |
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Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
ISBN: 9780520224964 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass violence. Yet, in the very midst of this turbulence, social and cultural forms emerged, gained strength, spread, and took hold. Rooted in Barbarous Soil, Volume 3 in the four-volume California History Sesquicentennial Series, is the only book of its kind to examine gold rush society and...
Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial e...
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232,62 |
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Gold Mountain, Big City: Ken Cathcart’s 1947 Illustrated Map of San Francisco’s Chinatown
ISBN: 9781944903893 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unique character of San Francisco’s Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and celebratory time capsule of San Francisco’s Chinatown—the largest Chinese community outside of Asia—shares the stories of the unique businesses, culture, and people encountered by map illustrator Ken Cathcart between 1939 and 1955. Each section of this stylized map, supplemented by Cathcart’s never-before-seen black-and-white photographs, is explained in meticulous detail, revealing glimpses of the immigration story universal to America and exploring the...
The unique character of San Francisco’s Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and celebratory time c...
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234,83 |
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Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
ISBN: 9780804738804 / Angielski / Miękka / 904 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a...
Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and ...
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235,10 |
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The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910
ISBN: 9780807897485 / Angielski / Miękka / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documentary sources, contemporary newspaper accounts, and exploration in criminal case files to give a detailed reconstruction of the operations of the county's entire criminal justice system. By tracing the process from arrest to trial, sentencing, and punishment, this study will have a profound effect on our perception of American criminal justice.
Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the... Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documentary sources...
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235,10 |
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San Francisco: A Food Biography
ISBN: 9780759121515 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This food biography focuses on how people have experienced the bounty of the City by the Bay.
This food biography focuses on how people have experienced the bounty of the City by the Bay.
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235,10 |
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Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i
ISBN: 9780252038297 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S. jurisdiction. As a result, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans could seek jobs in the United States and its territories despite the anti-immigration policies in place at the time.
JoAnna Poblete's "Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i" takes an in-depth look at how the two groups fared in a third new colony, Hawai'i. Using plantation documents, missionary records,... In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless ...
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235,10 |
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Pacific Eldorado: A History of Greater California
ISBN: 9781119509288 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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236,89 |
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Santa Barbara's Royal Presidio: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Spain's Last Adobe Fortress
ISBN: 9781493067893 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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237,15 |
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Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy
ISBN: 9781421453545 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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237,15 |
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If It Swings, It's Music: The Autobiography of Hawai'i's Gabe Baltazar Jr.
ISBN: 9780824835590 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hawai'i's legendary jazz musician Gabe Baltazar Jr. has thrilled audiences since the late 1940s with his powerful and passionate playing. In this, the first book on his life and career, Gabe takes readers through the highs, lows, and in-betweens on the long road to becoming one of the very few Asian Americans who has achieved worldwide acclaim as a jazz artist. At a young age Gabe was encouraged by his father, an accomplished musician, to take up the clarinet and saxophone. As a teenager during World War II, Gabe performed with the Royal Hawaiian Band but spent his weekends playing... Hawai'i's legendary jazz musician Gabe Baltazar Jr. has thrilled audiences since the late 1940s with his powerful and passionate playing. In this, ... |
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239,99 |
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The Civil War Veterans of San Diego: Including Citations to Genealogical Research Sources in San Diego, California
ISBN: 9780788435805 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study was conducted to indentify Civil War veterans who migrated to San Diego, California, after the war. Nearly 2,000 veterans were identified, mostly Union veterans from the Northern States. For example: 281 were born in New York, 251 in Ohio, 172 in
A study was conducted to indentify Civil War veterans who migrated to San Diego, California, after the war. Nearly 2,000 veterans were identified, mos...
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241,69 |
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Utah's Stolen Treasures: The Ancients Are Crying
ISBN: 9781618979544 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Utah's Stolen Treasures is a book that was inspired by three American Indian shields discovered by author Gene Covington's grandparents in Wayne County, Utah back in 1926. Using the discovery of the shields as a point of departure, Covington provides a multi-layered tale, based primarily upon facts regarding the study of and caring for of the shields after they were discovered. As this fascinating book takes you via photographs through some of the most beautiful country in America, it also delves into the history of the early American pioneers and the American Indians they encountered, along...
Utah's Stolen Treasures is a book that was inspired by three American Indian shields discovered by author Gene Covington's grandparents in Wayne Count...
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242,77 |
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City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
ISBN: 9780199752249 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. Although the Nisei children, the American-born second generation, were U.S. citizens and were integrated in public schools, they were socially isolated in many ways from their peers. These young women found rapport in ethnocultural youth organizations, a forgotten world of female friendship and camaraderie that Valerie J. Matsumoto recovers in this book. Through extensive networks of social clubs, young Japanese American women competed in sports, socialized...
Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. Although the Nis...
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242,94 |
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From Acorns to Warehouses: Historical Political Economy of Southern California's Inland Empire
ISBN: 9781629580395 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas C. Patterson's large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces the social, political and economic changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago to the present. Framing his discussion of this region in the general growth trajectory of California's socio-economic history, he is able to connect landscape, resources, wealth, labor, and inequality using a Marxian framework for many key periods of the region's history. In moving between large scale historical changes, regional adaptations and resistance to those changes, and a...
Thomas C. Patterson's large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces the social, political and economic changes in this region...
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244,84 |
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