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Author : Albert S. Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337471347
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (713 download)
Download or read book A la California written by Albert S. Evans and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Paddison
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289056
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book American Heathens written by Joshua Paddison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th-century debate over whether the United States should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. Racial groups that were perceived as godless and uncivilized were excluded from suffrage, and evangelism among Indians and the Chinese was seen as a politically incendiary act. Joshua Paddison sheds light on ReconstructionÕs impact on Indians and Asian Americans by illustrating how marginalized groups fought for a political voice, refuting racist assumptions with their lives, words, and faith. Reconstruction, he argues, was not merely a remaking of the South, but rather a multiracial and multiregional process of reimagining the nation.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385206480
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books Added to the Mercantile Library of San Francisco written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Mercantile Library Association (San Francisco, Calif.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books Added to the Mercantile Library of San Francisco, from February 1, 1874, to September 1, 1875 written by Mercantile Library Association (San Francisco, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher : Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
ISBN 13 : 9780842028646
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (286 download)
Download or read book The Genealogist's Virtual Library written by Thomas Jay Kemp and published by Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. The Genealogist's Virtual Library is a new volume that directs readers to the sites on the web that contain the full text of books.
Author : Robert Clarke & Co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana, 1878 written by Robert Clarke & Co and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597143855
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Gold Rush Stories written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African American judge, and Eliza Farnham, an early feminist who founded California's first association to advocate for women's civil rights. Still others were eccentrics—perhaps none more so than San Francisco's self-styled king, Norton I, Emperor of the United States. As Gold Rush Stories relates the social tumult of the world rushing in, so too does it unearth the environmental consequences of the influx, including the destructive flood of yellow ooze (known as “slickens”) produced by the widespread and relentless practice of hydraulic mining. In the hands of a native son of the Sierra, these stories and dozens more reveal the surprising and untold complexities of the Gold Rush. “Seamlessly fuses academic rigor, original reporting and emotional intensity into one meditation on an era.... If the task of the historian is to be faithful to lost truths, then Noy's latest exploration succeeds on every level, and does so in a way that will keep readers wanting to dig deeper into the past.”—Scott Thomas Anderson, Sierra Lodestar “An original and lively look at all the usual suspects, plus bears, weather, women, Joaquín, disappointment and dissipation…. Exhaustively researched and highly entertaining.”—JoAnn Levy, author of They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter S. Alagona
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520355547
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book After the Grizzly written by Peter S. Alagona and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of threats to species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. The author shows how, over the course of more than a century, scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as dependent on the ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. The story begins with the tale of the state's extinct mascot, the California grizzly, and the conservation movements and laws that followed its disappearance. The second half of the book focuses on four high-profile endangered species: the California condor, the desert tortoise, the San Joaquin kit fox, and the Delta smelt. The author offers an account of how Americans developed a civil system in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The book concludes that the challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century will be to expand habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.
Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009198939
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Feminist Judgments: Immigration Law Opinions Rewritten written by Kathleen Kim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how critical feminist reasoning can reshape the current immigration legal regime in the United States.
Author : Guenter B Risse
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097955
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Driven by Fear written by Guenter B Risse and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, environment, morality, and citizenship entwined and played out. Guenter B. Risse places this forgotten institution within an emotional climate dominated by widespread public dread and disgust. In Driven by Fear, he analyzes the unique form of stigma generated by San Franciscans. Emotional states like xenophobia and racism played a part. Yet the phenomenon also included competing medical paradigms and unique economic needs that encouraged authorities to protect the city's reputation as a haven of health restoration. As Risse argues, public health history requires an understanding of irrational as well as rational motives. To that end he delves into the spectrum of emotions that drove extreme measures like segregation and isolation and fed psychological, ideological, and pragmatic urges to scapegoat and stereotype victims--particularly Chinese victims--of smallpox, leprosy, plague, and syphilis. Filling a significant gap in contemporary scholarship, Driven by Fear looks at the past to offer critical lessons for our age of bioterror threats and emerging infectious diseases.
Author : Clarke, Robert, & Co., Cincinnati, O.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relaing to America ... written by Clarke, Robert, & Co., Cincinnati, O. and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald H. Bayor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231119948
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America written by Ronald H. Bayor and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 240 primary sources, this introduction to a complex topic is a resource for student research.
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667622730
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)
Download or read book The Barbary Coast written by Herbert Asbury and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. The Barbary Coast is the chronicle of the birth of San Francisco. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.
Author : Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana, 1893 written by Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Flinchum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625855524
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Red Light Women of Death Valley written by Robin Flinchum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Focuses on the lives of several prostitutes who worked in Death Valley area boomtowns between the 1870s and the early 1900s . . . Colorful and intriguing” (Pahrump Valley Times). From the 1870s to the turn of the century, while countless men gambled their fortunes in Death Valley’s mines, many bold women capitalized on the boom-and-bust lifestyle and established saloons and brothels. These lively ladies were clever entrepreneurs and fearless adventurers but also mothers, wives, and respected members of their communities. Madam Lola Travis was one of the wealthiest single women in Inyo County in the 1870s. Known as “Diamond Tooth Lil,” Evelyn Hildegard was a poor immigrant girl who became a western legend. Local author and historian Robin Flinchum chronicles the lives of these women and many others who were unafraid to live outside the bounds of polite society and risk everything for a better future in the forbidding Death Valley desert. Includes photos! “Flinchum’s lively prose and detailed descriptions bring these women into focus, and provide a historically accurate and interesting overview of Death Valley’s pioneering mining era.” —Sierra Wave Media “A thoroughly entertaining and highly enlightening account of the wild Death Valley boom camps’ daring red light ladies . . . A very enjoyable and engaging book. A great read!” —Richard Lingenfelter, author of Death Valley & the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion
