California Press: 1495 books
by Kristin Ann Hass
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
For the city’s first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC’s symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasize the memory of American wars. In the last thirty...
Railtown
The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As...
Neon Wasteland
On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely...
Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface
Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
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...
Whitewashed Adobe
The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city—including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the...
Abandoned in the Heartland
Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known...
The World Hunt
An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion...
by Dale Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century.
Dale Peterson’s text provides a natural...
by Laura Pulido, Wendy Cheng, Laura R. Barraclough
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually...
Black and Brown in Los Angeles
Beyond Conflict and Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities...
Life in Crisis
The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Life in Crisis tells the story of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspoken protest...
Metropolis Berlin
1880–1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one...
Nature's Clocks
How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now...
Jazz/Not Jazz
The Music and Its Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
What is jazz? What is gained—and what is lost—when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions...