County of San Diego
Author: Theodore Strong Van Dyke
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 78
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Author: Theodore Strong Van Dyke
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carolyn Fregulia
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738555584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalifornia's gold country has been profoundly influenced by Italian culture for the last 160 years. Immigrants from Italy's northern provinces were drawn here by the lure of gold, but it was the allure of the California foothills, where they found the terrain and Mediterranean climate similar to that of Italy, that convinced them to stay. California's fledgling economy provided unparalleled opportunities for Italian businessmen, and unclaimed land was available for agriculturalists. Settlement soon brought women and children, and within a decade, Italians represented a significant portion of the population in the region, numbering among the gold country's leading farmers, merchants, and tradesmen. The Mother Lode also offered women unique advantages, and Italian women proved wonderfully resourceful when necessity demanded. The 1870s saw a second wave of immigration, as Italian laborers arrived to work in the large, corporate-owned gold mines. Descendents of many of these Italian pioneers remain in the gold country to this day.
Author: Pacific Italian Alliance
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-11-03
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1439648158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItalians were among the first European settlers in California, as fishermen from Italy arrived in the 1830s. After gold was discovered in 1848, immigrants from all over the world came for the opportunity that California presented. For the Italians, they encountered a terrain and climate so similar to their homeland that many stayed on to make California their new home. In San Joaquin County, the Italian influence remains profound, with the immigrants and their descendants helping develop the areas cultural, agricultural, and business climate into what it is today. The legacy of the Italian pioneers has enriched San Joaquin County in immeasurable ways. Every aspect of life here has been touched, molded, and made better by this industrious group who came to a distant land to make a better life.
Author: Olive Putnam Kirschner
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 146
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-06-21
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780282570583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from County of San Diego: The Italy of Southern California Up to twelve or fifteen years ago the low bottom lands were deemed far the most valuable; the uplands or Slopes being of little use except for stock range and the raising of hay and grain in winters of abundant rain. Even six years ago, al though it was becoming generally known that the uplands were the best for vines and fruits, especially when irrigable, yet in the partition of the large ranchos the bottom land was still rated at from three to five times the value of the best up lands. Not only were the bottom lands deemed more valuable because the surface was nearer to water beneath, and more easily reached by water from the larger streams, but they were considered the only really rich lands there were. The uplands being hard ands dry were often nearly bare of grass, and what there was seemed small beside the luxurient growth on the 10034 sbil of the clamp alluvial bottoms. In time it was found that the uplands needed only good plowing, and thorough cultivation to equal in production the best bottom lands; while the warmer nights in winter, cooler days in sum mer, their greater freedom from spring frosts, their broader view of the landscape and other advantages for picturesque homes, combined with a great superiority in the quality of nearly all fruits made them far better for nearly everything but corn, alfalfa and a few other products. The scale of val ues has been quite reversed; the uplands where irrigable, as most of them are in some way, being about the only lands now sought for fruit growing and attractive homes, while the low lands are used more for pasture or ordinary farming. For this purpose they are still very valuable, but it is a value that has close limits, while the Uplands being sought by people of wealth in pursuit mainly of comfort and places fit for the raising of the choicest and most tender fruits, have a con stantly rising value, the end of which none can foresee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Frank Freeman
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Published: 1900*
Total Pages: 45
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Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2018-02-15
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781377562926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Marge Bitetti
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738547756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 568,000 Italian Americans live in the Greater Los Angeles area--95,000 within the city itself making the Italian American population in Los Angeles the fourth largest in the United States. Unlike many other American cities with a nuclear "Little Italy," the Italian American community of Los Angeles has extended in all directions, gracing the entire region with its rich gifts and talents in art, architecture, banking, engineering, literature, cuisine, winemaking, and film. Italian men and women of knowledge, courage, and insight have embraced these industries to make life better for future generations. This book provides a glimpse into the Italian heritage that lies at the heart and soul of Los Angeles. To honor each individual contribution would require many volumes; the people and businesses profiled in this book are representations of the vast Italian community that is woven into the tapestry of Los Angeles.
Author: Paola A. Sensi Isolani
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Scambray
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0838641172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Queen Calafia's Paradise, Ken Scambray explains that California offers Italian American protagonists a unique cultural landscape in which to define what it means to be an American and how Italian American protagonists embark on a voyage to reconcile their Old World heritage with modern American society. In Pasinetti's From the Academy Bridge (1970), Scambray analyzes the influence of Pasinetti's diverse California landscape upon his protagonist. Scambray argues that any reading of Madalena's Confetti for Gino (1959), set in San Diego's Little Italy, must take into account Madalena's homosexuality and his little known homosexual World War II novel, The Invisible Glass (1950). In his chapters covering John Fante's Los Angeles fiction, Scambray explores the Italian American's quest to locate a home in Southern California. Ken Scambray teaches courses in North American Italian literature and Los Angeles fiction at the University of La Verne.