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Author | : May McNeer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258519582 |
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A History Of California, Highlighting The Cities Of San Francisco And Los Angeles.
Author | : Namit Arora |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2019-10-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781950437832 |
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A California Story describes immigrant life with empathy but without pulling any punches.
Author | : Stephen Krensky |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 9780689808036 |
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Describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West.
Author | : Michele Zack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History sites |
ISBN | : 9780615322438 |
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Sierra Madre, a suburban town in the Pasadena-Los Angeles orbit, has a distinct history. By contrast, Southern California's story is huge, varied, difficult to grasp. Examining the two together, and looking at how Sierra Madre has reflected regional and national experiences, brings new focus to the whole. Unlike histories of regions, states, and nations that must draw broad strokes at the expense of details about place--this work uses such references as windows onto larger meanings, taking readers beyond the local. Peeking out from behind intimate stories are big historical themes and epochs: the Industrial Revolution, Westward expansion, the role of illness in forming regional culture, Americanization policies of the Progressive Era, Japanese internment, and post-war development. Sierra Madre provides a sharp lens through which to interpret Southern California's intense allure, its history as a real estate deal, and its racial ambivalence. The context of a specific town--and the quest for a better life--lends fresh perspective that enlivens and deepens out understanding of the Southern California story.
Author | : California. Governor's Advisory Committee on Children and Youth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cynthia Mercati |
Publisher | : Settling the West II |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780756903039 |
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The story of the folks who rushed off to California in 1849 to search for gold.
Author | : Kevin Starr |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2007-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081297753X |
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“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco
Author | : May McNeer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2012-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258519094 |
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A History Of California, Highlighting The Cities Of San Francisco And Los Angeles.
Author | : Simeon Wade |
Publisher | : Heyday Books |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2021-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781597145374 |
Download Foucault in California: [a True Story--Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people'". This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade-ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade's partner Michael Stoneman, Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wade's firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade's bungalow, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault "Country Joe"); and, of course, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book chronicles a young man's burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.
Author | : Mir Tamim Ansary |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781432926816 |
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Describes the history of California, from its early settlements to its incorporation as a state, the increase in industrialization, and the state's significance in the modern era.