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Author : Chris Brewer
Publisher : HPN Books
ISBN 13 : 1893619141
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Historic Kern County written by Chris Brewer and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wallace Melvin Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Kern County, California written by Wallace Melvin Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas R. Littlefield
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166967
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Ruling the Waters written by Douglas R. Littlefield and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans first arrived at what is now California’s San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile of row crops, vineyards, orchards, and grazing acreage—some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in the world. This remarkable transformation, with its enduring consequences, is at the center of Ruling the Waters, a legal, social, and environmental history of how western water law shaped, and was shaped by, the subjugation of the largest freshwater wetlands wildlife habitat in the West. At the heart of efforts to wrest arable land from the region was the Kern River, which rises in the Sierra Nevada and carries snowmelt to what was once a great network of lakes, sloughs, and marshes at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. In Ruling the Waters Douglas R. Littlefield describes how, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneers and entrepreneurs diverted water out of this network of waterways to extract gold in the mountains and irrigate farms lower down the river, and how the law was made to accommodate these practices. Struggles over the Kern River’s water established one of the most important concepts in water law in some parts of the United States—that prior appropriation, dependent on the chronological order of diversions from waterways, could legally coexist with riparian rights, which restrict water usage to landownership directly next to a river or stream. Littlefield traces this concept to the 1886 California Supreme Court case of Lux v. Haggin—which pitted the giant farming and cattle company of Miller & Lux against a prominent land baron, James B. Haggin—and shows how the lawsuit profoundly shaped future waters issues, which in turn influenced water laws in other western states that were grappling with similar questions. Far from a dry legal history, Ruling the Waters tells a story with world-wide historical environmental ramifications, a tale of competing personalities and values and visions that forever changed both the economy and the ecology of the American West.
Author : Rick Wartzman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786726075
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Obscene in the Extreme written by Rick Wartzman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California -- the Joads' newfound home -- the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit of censorship. When W. B. "Bill" Camp, a giant cotton and potato grower, presided over its burning in downtown Bakersfield, he declared: "We are angry, not because we were attacked but because we were attacked by a book obscene in the extreme sense of the word." But Gretchen Knief, the Kern County librarian, bravely fought back. "If that book is banned today, what book will be banned tomorrow?" Obscene in the Extreme serves as a window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America -- a time when, as Steinbeck put it, there seemed to be "a revolution . . . going on."
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923264
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Inventing the Dream written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has emerged in its place," writes Starr. As he recreates the "lost California," Starr examines the rich variety of elements that figured in the growth of the Southern California way of life: the Spanish/Mexican roots, the fertile land, the Mediterranean-like climate, the special styles in architecture, the rise of Hollywood. He gives us a broad array of engaging (and often eccentric) characters: from Harrision Gray Otis to Helen Hunt Jackson to Cecil B. DeMille. Whether discussing the growth of winemaking or the burgeoning of reform movements, Starr keeps his central theme in sharp focus: how Californians defined their identity to themselves and to the nation.
Author : James Miller Guinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the San Joaquin Valley, California written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul E. Vandor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Fresno County, California written by Paul E. Vandor and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tyler Green
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377532
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Carleton Watkins written by Tyler Green and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] fascinating and indispensable book."—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018—The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing, 2018 California Book Awards Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) is widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as news of the Union’s disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studio’s horrific photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkins’s work tied the West to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkins’s pictures, Congress would pass legislation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, that preserved Yosemite as the prototypical “national park,” the first such act of landscape preservation in the world. Carleton Watkins: Making the West American includes the first history of the birth of the national park concept since pioneering environmental historian Hans Huth’s landmark 1948 “Yosemite: The Story of an Idea.” Watkins’s photographs helped shape America’s idea of the West, and helped make the West a full participant in the nation. His pictures of California, Oregon, and Nevada, as well as modern-day Washington, Utah, and Arizona, not only introduced entire landscapes to America but were important to the development of American business, finance, agriculture, government policy, and science. Watkins’s clients, customers, and friends were a veritable “who’s who” of America’s Gilded Age, and his connections with notable figures such as Collis P. Huntington, John and Jessie Benton Frémont, Eadweard Muybridge, Frederick Billings, John Muir, Albert Bierstadt, and Asa Gray reveal how the Gilded Age helped make today’s America. Drawing on recent scholarship and fresh archival discoveries, Tyler Green reveals how an artist didn’t just reflect his time, but acted as an agent of influence. This telling of Watkins’s story will fascinate anyone interested in American history; the West; and how art and artists impacted the development of American ideas, industry, landscape, conservation, and politics.
Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
ISBN 13 : 1948436434
Total Pages : 1503 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)
Download or read book History of the Use of Soybean Plants as Forage for Livestock (510 CE to 2021) written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 1503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 72 photographs and illustrations - some color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
Author : Paul Gates
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532732
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Land and Law in California written by Paul Gates and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land and Law in California present essays by Paul W. Gates, a foremost authority on American public lands history.
Author : Gray Brechin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520250086
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Imperial San Francisco written by Gray Brechin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Imperial San Francisco" provides a myth-shattering interpretation of the hidden costs that the growth of San Francisco has exacted on its surrounding regions, presenting along the way a revolutionary new theory of urban development".--"Palo Alto Daily News". 86 photos.
Author : Gray Brechin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933486
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface written by Gray Brechin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race. In a new preface, Brechin considers the vulnerability of cities in the post-9/11 twenty-first century.
Author : Donald J. Pisani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520326474
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book From the Family Farm to Agribusiness written by Donald J. Pisani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author : Bancroft Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books. Supplement written by Bancroft Library and published by . This book was released on with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
ISBN 13 : 194843640X
Total Pages : 843 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)
Download or read book History of Soybeans and the Great Agricultural Revolution (1874-2021) written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well document, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 136 photographs and illustrations - many in color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
Author : A.C. Pritchard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197665934
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court written by A.C. Pritchard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Securities Law and the Supreme Court explores how the Supreme Court has made (and remade) securities law. It covers the history of the federal securities laws from their inception during the Great Depression, relying on the justices' conference notes, internal memoranda, and correspondence to shed light on how they came to their decisions and drafted their opinions. That history can be divided into five periods that parallel and illustrate key trends of the Court's jurisprudence more generally. The first saw the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt--aided by his filling eight seats on the Court-triumph in its efforts to enact the securities laws and establish their constitutional legitimacy. This brought an end to the Court's long-standing hostility to the regulation of business. The arrival of Roosevelt's justices, all committed to social control of finance, ushered in an era of deference to the SEC's expertise that lasted through the 1940s and 1950s. The 1960s brought an era of judicial activism-and further expansion--by the Warren Court, with purpose taking precedence over text in statutory interpretation. The arrival of Lewis F. Powell, Jr. in 1972 brought a sharp reversal. Powell's leadership of the Court in securities law produced a counter-revolution in the field and an end to the SEC's long winning streak at the Court. Powell's retirement in 1987 marked the beginning of the final period of this study. In the absence of ideological consensus or strong leadership, the Court's securities jurisprudence meandered, taking a random walk between expansive and restrictive decisions.
Author : Carey McWilliams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520218932
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (189 download)
Download or read book California written by Carey McWilliams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-04-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is graced by a new foreword by Lewis Lapham.
