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Download or read book The City written by Allen J. Scott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. The editors of THE CITY have assembled a variety of essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of this extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. 58 illustrations.
Book Synopsis Lower California by : Zephyrin Engelhardt
Download or read book Lower California written by Zephyrin Engelhardt and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive history of the Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries in Lower California and of the Franciscans in Upper California.
Book Synopsis Building with Our Hands by : Adela de la Torre
Download or read book Building with Our Hands written by Adela de la Torre and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-06-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first interdisciplinary collection of articles addressing the unique history of Chicana women. From a diverse range of perspectives, a new generation of Chicana scholars here chronicles the previously undocumented rich tapestry of Chicanas' lives over the last three centuries. Focusing on how women have grappled with political subordination and sexual exploitation, the contributors confront the complex intersection of class, race, ethnicity, and gender that defines the Chicana experience in America. The book analyzes the ways that oppressive power relations and resistance to domination have shaped Chicana history, exploring subjects as diverse as sexual violence against Amerindian women during the Spanish conquest of California to contemporary Chicanas' efforts to construct feminist cultural discourses. The volume ends with a provocative dialogue among the contributors about the challenges, frustrations, and obstacles that face Chicana scholars, and the voices heard here testify to the vibrant state of Chicano scholarship. Trenchant and wide-ranging, this collection is essential reading for understanding the dynamics of feminism and multiculturalism.
Book Synopsis Massacre at the Yuma Crossing by : Mark Santiago
Download or read book Massacre at the Yuma Crossing written by Mark Santiago and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quiet of the dawn was rent by the screams of war. Scores, perhaps hundreds, of Quechan and Mohave warriors leaped from concealment, rushing the plaza from all sides. Painted for battle and brandishing lances, bows, and war clubs, the Indians killed every Spaniard they could catch. The route from the Spanish presidial settlements in upper Sonora to the Colorado River was called the Camino del Diablo, the "Road of the Devil." Running through the harshest of deserts, this route was the only way for the Spanish to transport goods overland to their settlements in California. At the end of the route lay the only passable part of the lower Colorado, and the people who lived around the river, the Yumas or Quechans, initially joined into a peaceful union with the Spanish. When the relationship soured and the Yumas revolted in 1781, it essentially ended Spanish settlement in the area, dashed the dreams of the mission builders, and limited Spanish expansion into California and beyond. In Massacre at the Yuma Crossing, Mark Santiago introduces us to the important and colorful actors involved in the dramatic revolt of 1781: Padre Francisco Garcés, who discovered a path from Sonora to California, made contact with the Yumas and eventually became their priest; Salvador Palma, the informal leader of the Yuman people, whose decision to negotiate with the Spanish earned him a reputation as a peacebuilder in the region, which eventually caused his downfall; and Teodoro de Croix, the Spanish commandant-general, who, breaking with traditional settlement practice, established two pueblos among the Quechans without an adequate garrison or mission, thereby leaving the settlers without any sort of defense when the revolt finally took place. Massacre at the Yuma Crossing not only tells the story of the Yuma Massacre with new details but also gives the reader an understanding of the pressing questions debated in the Spanish Empire at the time: What was the efficacy of the presidios? How extensive should the power of the Catholic mission priests be? And what would be the future of Spain in North America?
Book Synopsis The Los Angeles River by : Blake Gumprecht
Download or read book The Los Angeles River written by Blake Gumprecht and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters and grizzly bears roamed its shores. The bountiful environment the river helped create supported one of the largest concentrations of Indians in North America. Today, the river is made almost entirely of concrete. Chain-link fence and barbed wire line its course. Shopping carts and trash litter its channel. Little water flows in the river most of the year, and nearly all that does is treated sewage and oily street runoff. On much of its course, the river looks more like a deserted freeway than a river. The river's contemporary image belies its former character and its importance to the development of Southern California. Los Angeles would not exist were it not for the river, and the river was crucial to its growth. Recognizing its past and future potential, a potent movement has developed to revitalize its course. The Los Angeles River offers the first comprehensive account of a river that helped give birth to one of the world's great cities, significantly shaped its history, and promises to play a key role in its future.
Download or read book Writings written by Saint Junípero Serra and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones by : Elizabeth D. Heineman
Download or read book Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones written by Elizabeth D. Heineman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations—from courts to NGOs to the UN—have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime sexual violence. Yet many millennia of conflict preceded these developments, and we know little about the longer-term history of conflict-based sexual violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones helps to fill in the historical gaps. It provides insight into subjects that are of deep concern to the human rights community, such as the aftermath of conflict-based sexual violence, legal strategies for prosecuting it, the economic functions of sexual violence, and the ways perceived religious or racial difference can create or aggravate settings of sexual danger. Essays in the volume span a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic scope, touching on the ancient world, medieval Europe, the American Revolutionary War, precolonial and colonial Africa, Muslim Central Asia, the two world wars, and the Bangladeshi War of Independence. By considering a wide variety of cases, the contributors analyze the factors making sexual violence in conflict zones more or less likely and the resulting trauma more or less devastating. Topics covered range from the experiences of victims and the motivations of perpetrators, to the relationship between wartime and peacetime sexual violence, to the historical background of the contemporary feminist-inflected human rights moment. In bringing together historical and contemporary perspectives, this wide-ranging collection provides historians and human rights activists with tools for understanding long-term consequences of sexual violence as war-ravaged societies struggle to achieve postconflict stability.
Book Synopsis History of California by : Theodore Henry Hittell
Download or read book History of California written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Mountains to the Sea - A History of Los Angeles by : John Steven McGroarty
Download or read book From the Mountains to the Sea - A History of Los Angeles written by John Steven McGroarty and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the author of this book has to tell is the true story of a great City that was founded "by order of the King," in the old days when the Western World was new. It is the story of a City that, for a century of time after its birth, showed few signs of promise, but which has now come to be the Greatest City of Western America and the metropolis of California— the "Land o' Heart's Desire." The history of any city that can be named almost, is a story of its fortune that came from location or other accident to make it great. But Los Angeles is a City that was made great by the people, who one day found it sleeping in the sun, oblivious to its destiny. They were, for the most part, people who came from far regions of America, seeking a more agreeable climate than that to which they had been accustomed. This is the truth of the matter.
Book Synopsis El Presidio de San Francisco by : John Phillip Langellier
Download or read book El Presidio de San Francisco written by John Phillip Langellier and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Resource Study, El Presidio de San Francisco by : John Phillip Langellier
Download or read book Historic Resource Study, El Presidio de San Francisco written by John Phillip Langellier and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Presidio written by Max L. Moorhead and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presidio is the first full account of this important aspect of the Spanish dominion in the New World. The author spent many years in the United States, Mexico, and Spain, searching out the sites of the presidios-most of which have now crumbled to dust. In Spain he discovered detailed plans of many of them, which are included in the book.
Book Synopsis Chimes of Mission Bells by : Maria Antonia Field
Download or read book Chimes of Mission Bells written by Maria Antonia Field and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lands of Promise and Despair by : Rose Marie Beebe
Download or read book Lands of Promise and Despair written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and settlers, friends and neighbors spill from these pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus.
Book Synopsis The Land of Sunshine by : Charles Fletcher Lummis
Download or read book The Land of Sunshine written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco by : John Whipple Dwinelle
Download or read book The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco written by John Whipple Dwinelle and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DK Eyewitness California travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the state has to offer. Whether you're making the most of the illustrious nightlife or discovering California's history in the museums of San Francisco, this guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife for all budgets. It's fully illustrated, and covers of all the major areas from LA and San Diego to The Mojave Desert and Wine Country. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites - including Long Beach, the Golden Gate Park and the Transamerica Pyramid - as well as reliable information about getting around this diverse state. DK Eyewitness California explores the culture, history and architecture, not missing the best in entertainment, shopping, tours and scenic walks, in this unique and varied state. With all the sights, beaches and attractions listed area by area, DK Eyewitness California is your essential companion. DK Eyewitness California - showing you what others only tell you.
