California Press: 1495 books
From Mission to Microchip
A History of the California Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers’ rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What’s the difference?...
California Crackup
How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Is California beyond repair? A sizable number of Golden State citizens have concluded that it is. Incessant budget crises plus a government paralyzed by partisan gridlock have led to demands for reform, even a constitutional convention. But what, exactly, is wrong and how can we fix it? In California...
The California Nitrogen Assessment
Challenges and Solutions for People, Agriculture, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Nitrogen is indispensable to all life on Earth. However, humans now dominate the nitrogen cycle, and nitrogen emissions from human activity have real costs: water and air pollution, climate change, and detrimental effects on human health, biodiversity, and natural habitats. Too little nitrogen limits...
California on the Breadlines
Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression’s most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private—they both divorced spouses to be together—collaborative, and richly productive....
by Lisbeth Haas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 1995
Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mission...
Inland Shift
Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital. Economic crisis, finance capital, and global commodity chains transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California...
by Rich Stallcup, Jules Evens
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The Northern California coast--from Monterey County to the Oregon border--is home to some of the richest avian habitats on the North American continent. Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast provides a comprehensive ecological overview of this extensive and diverse region. It features...
The Other California
Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Other California is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse landscape of Baja California. Packed with new and transformative stories, the book examines the interplay of land reform and migratory labor on the peninsula from 1850 to 1954,...
by Philip Garone
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells...
by David Carle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much about California itself as the book describes its rivers, lakes, wetlands,...
by James P. Smith Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Grasses and grasslands are of increasing interest to conservationists, biologists, and gardeners. There are more than 300 species of native California grasses and they are found in almost every climate—from cool, wet forests to hot, dry deserts. Native grasses are also important to land restoration...
by Susan Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
California is globally renowned for its biological diversity, including its wealth of unique, or endemic, species. Many reasons have been cited to explain this abundance: the complex geology and topography of its landscape, the special powers of its Mediterranean-type climate, and the historic and...
Big Sur
The Making of a Prized California Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West, as well as a home to the ultrawealthy. This transformation was due in part...
Tobacco War
Inside the California Battles
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2000
Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton...