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Book Synopsis John Randolph Haynes by : Tom Sitton
Download or read book John Randolph Haynes written by Tom Sitton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades, John Randolph Haynes (1853-1937) was in the forefront of social-reform crusades and political action in Los Angeles and California, with his most important legacies in the fields of direct legislation and public ownership of utilities. He was the individual most responsible for the adoption of the initiative, referendum, and recall in Los Angeles in 1902 and in California in 1911. His vigilant protection of these measures thereafter and his promotion of direct legislation throughout the nation earned him the title "father of direct legislation" in California. From 1910 until his death, Haynes's chief priority was to shape the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power into a glowing example of public ownership of utilities. Today, LADWP operates the world's largest municipal water and electrical power generation and distribution system, continuing to serve the needs of an ever-growing region whose extent even Haynes could not have envisaged. In many ways, Haynes is an enigma. He was not a typical progressive, having amassed a fortune in his medical practice and in real estate, mining, and other capitalistic ventures. However, he spent a large portion of his wealth to promote a form of gradual, democratic socialism in the United States. Haynes advocated the transformation of the nation's economy and government, yet he campaigned for morality laws that limited personal freedom. Haynes's motivation was not social status or money, both of which he had before his conversion to social reform. Nor was it political power: he never ran for office (except as a temporary freeholder) or created a personal political machine. His primary motive was a perhaps arrogant yet honest desire to aid in the creation of a more just society by improving the living and working conditions of the less fortunate. In one way or another, Haynes participated in all the major social and political events that shaped California and Los Angeles in a most dynamic era of their development. In a broader sense, Haynes's life serves as a yardstick with which to measure other progressives of his time and as a key for understanding the motivation of those idealists who helped shape our present political institutions.
Book Synopsis Eugenic Nation by : Alexandra Minna Stern
Download or read book Eugenic Nation written by Alexandra Minna Stern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details that demonstrate that the story is far from over. Alexandra Minna Stern explores the unauthorized sterilization of female inmates in California state prisons and ongoing reparations for North Carolina victims of sterilization, as well as the topics of race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, the U.S. Border Patrol, tropical medicine, the environmental movement, and opposition to better breeding. Radically new and relevant, this edition draws from recently uncovered historical records to demonstrate patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and to recover personal experiences of reproductive injustice. Stern connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Shades of L.A. by : Carolyn Kozo Cole
Download or read book Shades of L.A. written by Carolyn Kozo Cole and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shades of L.A., a collection of more than one hundred photographs selected from the family albums of eight different communities, makes available, for the first time, rare images of family life in Southern California. Taken not by outsiders reporting to the world, but by families recording their own history, these photographs are important cultural documents of the twentieth century. Together with a timeline of L.A.'s ethnic history, they give a compelling portrait of life in one of America's most diverse cities from the 1880s to the 1960s.
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Download or read book National Civic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Progressivism Revisited by : William F. Deverell
Download or read book California Progressivism Revisited written by William F. Deverell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California was perhaps the most important locus for the development of the Progressive reform movement in the decades of the twentieth century. These twelve original essays represent the best of the new scholarship on California Progressivism. Ranging across a spectrum that embraces ethnicity, gender, class, and varying ideological stances, the authors demonstrate that reform in California was a far broader, more complicated phenomenon than we have previously understood. Since the 1950s, scholars have used California Progressivism as a model case study for explaining early twentieth-century social and political reform nationwide. But such a model—which ignored issues of class, race, and gender—simplified a political movement that was, in fact, quite complex. In revising the monolithic interpretation of reform and reformers, this volume provides a better understanding of the sweeping reform impulses that had such a profound effect on American political and social institutions during this century. Equally important, the issues examined here offer significant insights into problems that the entire country must tackle as we approach the new century.
Book Synopsis Publications by : Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California
Download or read book Publications written by Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions by : Commonwealth Club of California
Download or read book Transactions written by Commonwealth Club of California and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California by : General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) California
Download or read book History of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California written by General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) California and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California by : Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California
Download or read book History of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California written by Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Theatre of Cornwall by : Alan M. Kent
Download or read book The Theatre of Cornwall written by Alan M. Kent and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking study shows that through the centuries Cornwall has had one of the most complex theatrical cultures in West Europe and can lay claim to being the pre-eminent 'Celtic' theatrical territory.
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Book Synopsis Private Foundations by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Foundations
Download or read book Private Foundations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Foundations and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Africa / The Americas / Asia and Oceania by : Michael Zils
Download or read book Africa / The Americas / Asia and Oceania written by Michael Zils and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa / The Americas / Asia and Oceania.
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economics and Politics of Racial Accommodation by : John Modell
Download or read book The Economics and Politics of Racial Accommodation written by John Modell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's thesis, Columbia University, 1969. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Download or read book Studies in Local Government written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biographical by : James Miller Guinn
Download or read book Biographical written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
