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Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America
ISBN: 9780520222809 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this innovative and exciting synthesis of historical analysis, literary criticism, and personal essay, Dorothee E. Kocks explores the links between place and political ideals in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the iconography of the American West. Dream a Little explores the American tradition of using the land to reveal and elaborate our dreams for social justice.
Writing with a novelist's sensitivity toward language, Kocks explores the idea that Americans have historically looked to the land for answers to society's problems. To illustrate this point, she... In this innovative and exciting synthesis of historical analysis, literary criticism, and personal essay, Dorothee E. Kocks explores the links between...
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180,36 zł |
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The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas
ISBN: 9780520225381 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a lively and compelling portrait of the other side of Las Vegas: the people and institutions that support the glitter of the gaming and entertainment industry. Examining a range of topics--from the city's commercial history, labor conditions, and environmental problems to an analysis of the famous...
The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals r...
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210,42 zł |
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Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s
ISBN: 9780520226272 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban sprawl and reliance on the automobile, its prominence as a financial and industrial center, and the rise of Hollywood as the film capital of the world. This collection of original essays explores the making of the Los Angeles metropolis during this remarkable decade. The authors examine the city's racial, political, cultural, and industrial dynamics, making this volume an essential guide to understanding the rise of Los Angeles as one of the most important cities in the...
Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban sprawl and reliance on the auto...
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216,43 zł |
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Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1900
ISBN: 9780520227446 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land. The Southwest has been and continues to be the scene of a collision between land regimes with radically different cultural conceptions of the land's purpose.
We meet Jicarilla Apaches, whose identity is rooted in a... Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This tur...
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385,08 zł |
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Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them
ISBN: 9780520228627 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict between ranchers and the federal government over public grazing lands. Drawing upon neglected sources from organized ranchers, this is the first book to provide a historically based explanation for why the relationship between ranchers and the federal government became so embattled long before modern environmentalists became involved in the issue. Reconstructing the increasingly contested interpretations of the meaning of public land administration,...
The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict betwe...
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354,71 zł |
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The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande
ISBN: 9780520229716 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentieth-century Spanish heritage owes as much to the coming of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1880 as to the first Spanish colonial campaign of 1598. As the railroad brought capital and migrants into the region, Anglos posed an unprecedented challenge to Hispano wealth and political power. Yet unlike their...
Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought...
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385,08 zł |
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Mi Raza Primero, My People First: Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978
ISBN: 9780520230187 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Mi Raza Primero is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale--in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chavez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo, commonly known as CASA. Chavez examines and chronicles the ideas and tactics of the insurgency's leaders and their followers who, while differing in their goals and tactics,...
Mi Raza Primero is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale--in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest p...
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164,43 zł |
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American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941
ISBN: 9780520230958 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Historically, Filipina/o Americans have been one of the oldest and largest Asian American groups in the United States. In this pathbreaking work of historical scholarship, Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony traces the evolution of Seattle as a major site for Philippine immigration between World Wars I and II and examines the dynamics of the community through the frameworks of race, place, gender, and class. By positing Seattle as a colonial metropolis for Filipina/os in the United States, Fujita-Rony reveals how networks of transpacific trade and militarism encouraged migration to the city, leading to...
Historically, Filipina/o Americans have been one of the oldest and largest Asian American groups in the United States. In this pathbreaking work of hi...
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198,40 zł |
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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780520234666 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct--a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal--that brought water to semi-arid Los Angeles from the lush Owens Valley. The story of Los Angeles's quest for water is both famous and notorious: it has been the subject of the classic yet historically distorted movie Chinatown, as well as many other accounts. This first full-length biography of Mulholland...
William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-t...
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115,74 zł |
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Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer
ISBN: 9780520238657 / Angielski / Miękka / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. Brewer was not a geologist, but his training in agriculture and botany made him an invaluable member of the team. He traveled more than fourteen thousand miles in the four years he spent in California and spent much of his leisure time writing lively, detailed letters to his brother back East. These warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety, describe the new...
In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to a...
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157,59 zł |
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The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society
ISBN: 9780520243026 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "The most important study to come out of the Chumash area, and one of the best examples of research on culture change in contemporary archaeology."--L. Mark Raab, coeditor of "Prehistoric California "A contribution that is remarkable in its scope, quality, and importance."--Terry L. Jones, coeditor of "Catalysts to Complexity "The most comprehensive effort yet made to apply the theoretical framework of behavioral ecology to a problem in human prehistory. The result is not only an excellent demonstration of the power of the approach but a major contribution to the pre-European history of...
"The most important study to come out of the Chumash area, and one of the best examples of research on culture change in contemporary archaeology."--L...
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517,35 zł |
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Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939volume 20
ISBN: 9780520246492 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups. She shows how the racialization of Mexican Americans was not simply a matter of legal exclusion or labor...
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race...
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216,43 zł |
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Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
ISBN: 9780520246676 / Angielski / Miękka / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city--including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920s. In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriating--and...
Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew an...
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186,36 zł |
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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angelesvolume 13
ISBN: 9780520248113 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with provocative discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium, Disneyland, and L.A.'s renowned freeways. These institutions not only mirrored this new culture of suburban...
Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A....
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180,36 zł |
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The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself
ISBN: 9780520248205 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate "seemed to jump clear out of the water." This gripping account of the earthquake, the devastating firestorms that followed, and the city's subsequent reconstruction vividly shows how, after the shaking stopped, humans, not the forces of nature, nearly destroyed San Francisco in a remarkable display of simple ineptitude and power politics. Bolstered by previously unpublished eyewitness accounts and photographs, this definitive history of a fascinating...
The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate "seemed t...
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112,51 zł |
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L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present
ISBN: 9780520248304 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass--embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South--is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits...
In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames duri...
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147,99 zł |
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Imperial San Francisco, with a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
ISBN: 9780520250086 / Angielski / Miękka / 437 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families--the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others--who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and the mass media. The story uncovered by Gray Brechin is one of greed and ambition on an epic scale. Brechin arrives at a new way of understanding urban history as he traces the connections between environment, economy, and technology and discovers links that led, ultimately, to the creation of the...
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families--the...
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137,03 zł |
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No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland
ISBN: 9780520251663 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "This sophisticated account of a remarkable city's coalitions and conflicts over half a century is an outstanding contribution to urban history and political analysis. Clearly written and amply supplied with good stories, the book will interest students of urban history, social movements, and American political change."--Charles Tilly, author of "Durable Inequality
"An altogether exemplary book. Rhomberg uses a combination of traditional class analysis, an institutional perspective on urban politics, and social movement theory to fashion a rich and persuasive account of the history of urban... "This sophisticated account of a remarkable city's coalitions and conflicts over half a century is an outstanding contribution to urban history and po...
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216,43 zł |
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Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden
ISBN: 9780520251670 / Angielski / Miękka / 401 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export--the orange. From the 1870s onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together for the first time the full story of the orange industry--how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of...
This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signa...
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158,95 zł |
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Berkeley: A City in History
ISBN: 9780520253070 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Railroad Age, The Depression, World War II, The Atomic Age, The Sixties--these periods shaped and were in turn shaped by Berkeley, California--a city that has had a remarkable influence given its modest size. This concise book, the only up-to-date history of Berkeley, is a rich chronicle connecting the people, trends, and events that made the city to much larger themes in history. From the native builders of shellmounds to the blue-collar residents of Ocean View, the rise of the University of California, the World War II shipyards, and today's demographics and politics, it's all here in...
The Railroad Age, The Depression, World War II, The Atomic Age, The Sixties--these periods shaped and were in turn shaped by Berkeley, California--a c...
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121,53 zł |
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