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Book Backyard Roots

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  • Author : Lori Eanes
  • Publisher : Skipstone Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781594857119
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Backyard Roots written by Lori Eanes and published by Skipstone Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Along the West coast, a range of people--from families with young children, to immigrants recapturing their homeland culture, to idealistic twenty-somethings seeking community--are turning their urban backyards into modern-day homesteads. Lori Eanes reveals the lives of 35 of these urban farmers through her photographs and stories"--P. [4] of cover.

Book Right Out of California

Download or read book Right Out of California written by Kathryn S. Olmsted and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR's New Deal. Right Out of California tells how this brief moment of upheaval terrified business leaders into rethinking their relationship to American politics--a narrative that pits a ruthless generation of growers against a passionate cast of reformers, writers, and revolutionaries. Olmsted reveals how California's businessmen learned the language of populism with the help of allies in the media and entertainment industries, and in the process created a new style of politics: corporate funding of grassroots groups, military-style intelligence gathering against political enemies, professional campaign consultants, and alliances between religious and economic conservatives. The business leaders who battled for the hearts and minds of Depression-era California, moreover, would go on to create the organizations that launched the careers of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. A riveting history in its own right, Right Out of California is also a vital chapter in our nation's political transformation whose echoes are still felt today.

Book California  Roots

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  • Author : Charles Lavaroni
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book California Roots written by Charles Lavaroni and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roots and Routes  Poetics at New College of California

Download or read book Roots and Routes Poetics at New College of California written by Patrick James Dunagan and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Roots and Routes' gathers essays, talks, interviews, statements, notes, and other prose writings by poets who studied and/or taught at the New College of California’s Masters in Poetics program over the course of its nearly 30-year existence. The collection evokes a much-needed anti-hierarchical, even anarchic, pedagogy in poetry, poetics, and the literary arts, and is part of a general reevaluation of standard higher education models on Creative Writing. As such it will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars interested in America’s recent literary history, as well as to poets outside the academy and the general reader interested in US poetry and poetics.

Book Miracle Country

Download or read book Miracle Country written by Kendra Atleework and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SIGURD F. OLSON NATURE WRITING AWARD “Blending family memoir and environmental history, Kendra Atleework conveys a fundamental truth: the places in which we live, live on—sometimes painfully—in us. This is a powerful, beautiful, and urgently important book.” —Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Her parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful if harsh landscape prone to wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Above all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But when Kendra’s mother died when Kendra was just sixteen, her once-beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile, as climate change, drought, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles, and then Minneapolis, land of tall trees, full lakes, water everywhere you look. But after years of avoiding her troubled hometown, she felt pulled back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return, emptiness and bounty, the realities of a harsh and changing climate, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Terry Tempest Williams, and Rebecca Solnit, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer.

Book California

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  • Author : Michael McCabe
  • Publisher : Cloud Pub
  • Release : 1991-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780911981070
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book California written by Michael McCabe and published by Cloud Pub. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California s Roots

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  • Author : ROGER DE ALMEIDA
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book California s Roots written by ROGER DE ALMEIDA and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California s Roots

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  • Author : Roger George de Almeida
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2021-12-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book California s Roots written by Roger George de Almeida and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California belonged to the Indians before it was a territory or state. This is a great story of the "white man" invading with a diabolical plan to simulate them and take over the land and culture they had for over ten centuries as the east coast tribes indured

Book California

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  • Author : Charles Lavaroni
  • Publisher : Cloud Pub
  • Release : 1984-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780911981049
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book California written by Charles Lavaroni and published by Cloud Pub. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Circular

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  • Author : United States. Office of Experiment Stations
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book Circular written by United States. Office of Experiment Stations and published by . This book was released on with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Gold

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  • Author : John Jakes
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2012-07-10
  • ISBN : 1453256016
  • Pages : 1126 pages

Download or read book California Gold written by John Jakes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “riveting . . . sweeping epic” of one man driven by gold fever, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South (Richmond Times-Dispatch). At the height of California’s Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance, a poor Pennsylvanian who is drawn to California by the dream of lasting wealth—a dream so powerful he’ll stop at nothing to see it through. Along the way he’ll encounter grand passion, ruthless enemies, and larger-than-life titans like Leland Stanford, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Randolph Hearst, who helped shape a country’s destiny. “The best historical novelist of our time” (Patricia Cornwell) once again spins a sweeping tale of power and passion, as he did so masterfully in the Crown Family Saga, the Kent Family Chronicles, and the North and South trilogy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Book Roots of Rebellion

Download or read book Roots of Rebellion written by Victoria E. Bonnell and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Book California Cultivator

Download or read book California Cultivator written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deep Roots

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  • Author : Avidit Acharya
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 0691203725
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Deep Roots written by Avidit Acharya and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than whites in other parts of the country. Why haven't these sentiments evolved or changed? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched political and racial views of contemporary white southerners are a direct consequence of the region's slaveholding history, which continues to shape economic, political, and social spheres. Today, southern whites who live in areas once reliant on slavery--compared to areas that were not--are more racially hostile and less amenable to policies that could promote black progress. Highlighting the connection between historical institutions and contemporary political attitudes, the authors explore the period following the Civil War when elite whites in former bastions of slavery had political and economic incentives to encourage the development of anti-black laws and practices. Deep Roots shows that these forces created a local political culture steeped in racial prejudice, and that these viewpoints have been passed down over generations, from parents to children and via communities, through a process called behavioral path dependence. While legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act made huge strides in increasing economic opportunity and reducing educational disparities, southern slavery has had a profound, lasting, and self-reinforcing influence on regional and national politics that can still be felt today. A groundbreaking look at the ways institutions of the past continue to sway attitudes of the present, Deep Roots demonstrates how social beliefs persist long after the formal policies that created those beliefs have been eradicated."--Jacket.

Book Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California

Download or read book Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California written by California Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: