Dam!
Dam!

Author: John Warfield Simpson

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0375422315

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Crane with dam in background.

Barons of Labor
Barons of Labor

Author: Michael Kazin

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2022-10-17

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 025205461X

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From the depression of the 1890s through World War I, construction tradesman held an important place in San Francisco's economic, political, and social life. Michael Kazin's award-winning study delves into how the city’s Building Trades Council (BTC) created, accumulated, used, and lost their power. He traces the rise of the BTC into a force that helped govern San Francisco, controlled its potential progress, and articulated an ideology that made sense of the changes sweeping the West and the country. Believing themselves the equals of officeholders and corporate managers, these working and retired craftsmen pursued and protected their own power while challenging conservatives and urban elites for the right to govern. What emerges is a long-overdue look at building trades as a force in labor history within the dramatic story of how the city's 25,000 building workers exercised power on the job site and within the halls of government, until the forces of reaction all but destroyed the BTC.

Wilderness and the American Mind
Wilderness and the American Mind

Author: Roderick Frazier Nash

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0300153503

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DIVRoderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists.” For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller’s foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment./div

Subject Catalog
Subject Catalog

Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 858

ISBN-13:

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Into the West
Into the West

Author: Walter Nugent

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0307426424

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Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent brings us what is perhaps the most comprehensive and fascinating account to date of the peopling of the American West. In this epic social-demographic history, Nugent explores the populations of the West as they grow, change and intersect from the Paleo-Indians, the Spanish Conquistadors, to displaced Okies, wartime African American immigrants, and all the disparate groups that have made California the most ethnically diverse state in the union. Their tale, in all its complexity, is a tale that surprises, that subverts traditional stereotypes and that illuminates the multifaceted character of one of the world’s most unique and dynamic territories.