Know California's Land
Author: Leonard R. Wohletz
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 56
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Author: Leonard R. Wohletz
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Arax
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1101875216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
Author: Damon B. Akins
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0520976886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.
Author: Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0520291638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: the Mexican borderlands -- Building the Mexican borderlands -- The making of Baja California's multicultural society -- Revolution, labor unions, and early movements for land reform in Baja California 1910-1930 -- "Land and liberty": conflict, land reform, and repatriation in the Mexicali Valley, 1930-1940 -- Mexicali's exceptionalism -- Conclusion: the "all Mexican" train
Author: Rebecca Fish Ewan
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2000-12-08
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780801864612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Land Between tells the stories of the people who have lived in the valley and uncovers the marks they have left on the land.
Author: Daniel J. Curtin
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cris Perez
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 668
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Forest Service. California Region
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 1454
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