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Book The Romance of Balboa Park

Download or read book The Romance of Balboa Park written by Florence Christman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Right Next Door

Download or read book Right Next Door written by Debbie Macomber and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents two of her classic romances--"The Courtship of Carol Sommars" and "Father's Day, " in which Robin's ten-year-old son befriends Cole Camden's dog, bringing together the aloof and unfriendly Cole, who is still mourning the deaths of hiswife and son, and Robin, who is also dealing with a tragic loss.

Book Recreation in the United States

Download or read book Recreation in the United States written by James H. Charleton and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fair America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert W. Rydell
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
  • Release : 2000-03-17
  • ISBN : 1560983841
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2000-03-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

Book The Romantic Southland of California

Download or read book The Romantic Southland of California written by Marshall Breeden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romantic San Diego

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ken Christensen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996-10
  • ISBN : 9780962497865
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Romantic San Diego written by Ken Christensen and published by . This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Romance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joe DiPietro
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780822225201
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book The Last Romance written by Joe DiPietro and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A crush can make anyone feel young again--even a widower named Ralph. On an ordinary day in a routine life, Ralph decides to take a different path on his daily walk--one that leads him to an unexpected second chance at love. Relying on a r

Book Long range Public Investment

Download or read book Long range Public Investment written by Robert D. Leighninger and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal is augmented by fifty-eight photographs.

Book The San Diego World s Fairs and Southwestern Memory  1880 1940

Download or read book The San Diego World s Fairs and Southwestern Memory 1880 1940 written by Matthew F. Bokovoy and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36. Both San Diego fairs displayed a portrait of the Southwest and its peoples for the American public. The Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16 celebrated Southwestern pluralism and gave rise to future promotional events including the Long Beach Pacific Southwest Exposition of 1928, the Santa Fe Fiesta of the 1920s, and John Steven McGroarty's The Mission Play. The California-Pacific International Exposition of 1935-36 promoted the Pacific Slope and the consumer-oriented society in the making during the 1930s. These San Diego fairs distributed national images of southern California and the Southwest unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. By examining architecture and landscape, American Indian shows, civic pageants, tourist imagery, and the production of history for celebration and exhibition at each fair, Matthew Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego World's Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest. In tracing how the two fairs reflected civic conflict over an invented San Diego culture, Bokovoy explains the emergence of a myth in which the city embraced and incorporated native peoples, Hispanics, and Anglo settlers to benefit its modern development.

Book America Beyond Black and White

Download or read book America Beyond Black and White written by Ronald Fernandez and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intends to challenge the black-white dichotomy that historically has defined race and ethnicity, not by a small minority, but by the most vocal segment of the increasingly diverse American population - Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, and Arabs - who are breaking down and recreating the very definitions of race.

Book San Diego County Place Names  A to Z

Download or read book San Diego County Place Names A to Z written by Leland Fetzer and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,500 place names in San Diego County. Each listing gives general location and specific citation of place name origin.

Book The California House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Masson
  • Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-04-05
  • ISBN : 0847835855
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The California House written by Kathryn Masson and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aura and romance of Old California lives on in this treasury of inviting homes. The California House presents the magic of the "golden state," that land of infinite promise and dreams, the most tangible expression of which can be found in the homes built by early California dreamers. Here domestic visions of tranquility and repose were inventively realized—in stucco or stone, wood and wrought iron, plaster, and glass and tile. Spanish Colonial Revival–style homes with elaborate wrought-iron window grilles, romantic, shadowy interiors, and lush courtyard gardens stand beside other particularly Californian architectural wonders such as the San Francisco Victorian Painted Lady, the Monterey Colonial, Eurekan Queen Anne, and the homey California Arts & Crafts. Including houses designed by luminaries George Washington Smith, Stanford White, Greene & Greene, and Reginald Johnson, this book will fascinate both the architecture aficionado and interior design enthusiasts, as well as the everyday lover of homes. Including, but going beyond, the much-adored Spanish style (in its many manifestations) and Mission Revival, the book features as well the Victorian of San Francisco's Painted Lady and Eureka's Queen Anne, Monterey Colonial, California Arts & Crafts, French Chateau, classic Colonial farm house, and more. All new color photography of 25 houses in California ranging in style from Spanish Colonial Revival, Mission, Victorian, Queen Anne, California Arts & Crafts, Monterey, French Chateau, Colonial Farm House. The book includes little known California work by well known architect Stanford White, known primarily for his East Coast work (designer of the original Penn Station with McKim, Mead & White, and original Madison Square Garden, and many others); as well as the Magdelena Zanone House (Queen Anne late Victorian style home in Eureka, CA); the Murphy House, San Francisco (Classic French Chateau); a Gothic Victorian 1860s home in Sonoma; Casa Amesti (Monterey style home); "El Cerrito" designed by Russel Ray and Winsor Soule and built in 1913 in Santa Barbara (an amalgam of Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival); the Frothingham House designed by George Washington Smith in 1922 (Spanish Colonial Rev.); Cuartro Ventos House by Reginald Johnson, 1929 in Santa Barbara; William Edwards House by Roland E. Coate, Sr. in San Marino, 1926; Robinson House by Greene and Greene in Pasadena, 1905; Sack House in Berkeley (California Arts & Crafts) Brune-Reutlinger House in San Francisco (classic Painted Lady Victorian); a colonial mid-19th cent farm house in Sonoma; "Mariposa," classic Spanish style in Montecito; The Marston House in San Diego (Arts & Crafts/Tudoresque); Rancho Los Alamos De Santa Elena in Los Alamos (Span. Col. Rev.); Pepper Hill Farm in Balard.

Book The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panam

Download or read book The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panam written by James P. Delgado and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 11,000 year human history, the Isthmus of Panamá has been dominated by its relationship to the sea and the rivers that feed it. A unique marine environment, the land bridge shaped its inhabitants’ activities, and those inhabitants shaped the Isthmus—from harvesting resources to physically transforming the land to link two oceans. This seminal work explores this intersection between people and the environment, mining the archaeological and ethnological record created during the formation and development of Panamá's maritime cultural landscape. Assessing sites both submerged and on land, the authors explore the maritime history of the isthmus through its many stages: from its prehistoric period through Spanish colonialism to the building of the canal and its function as a route for modern-day maritime traffic. Combining archaeology, history, geography, and economic history, this volume situates Panamá's canal and isthmus in the global economy and world maritime culture, while providing a more complex understanding of human adaptation and the persistence of culture.

Book Herbert E  Bolton and the Historiography of the Americas

Download or read book Herbert E Bolton and the Historiography of the Americas written by Russell Magnaghi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative approach to the understanding of history is increasingly popular today. This study details the evolution of comparative history by examining the career of a pioneer in this area, Herbert E. Bolton, who popularized the notion that hemispheric history should be considered from pole to pole. Bolton traced the study of the history of the Americas back to 16th century European accounts of efforts to bring civilization to the New World, and he argued that only within this larger context could the histories of individual nations be understood. After American entry into the Spanish-American War in 1898, historians such as Bolton promoted the idea of comparative history, and it remains to this day a significant historiographical approach. Consideration of the history of the Americas as a whole dates back to 16th century European treatises on the New World. Chapter one of this study provides an overview of pre-Bolton formulations of such history. In chapter two one sees the forces that shaped Bolton's thinking and brought about the development of the concept. Chapters three and four focus upon the evolution of the approach through Bolton's history course at the University of California at Berkeley and the reception of the concept among Bolton's contemporaries. Unfortunately, Bolton never fully developed the theoretical side of his arguement; thus, chapter five chronicles the decline of his ideas after his death. The final chapter reveals the survival of the concept, which is now embraced by a new generation of historians who are largely unfamiliar with Bolton's instrumental role in the promotion of comparative history.

Book San Diego

    Book Details:
  • Author : Iris Wilson Engstrand
  • Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780932653727
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book San Diego written by Iris Wilson Engstrand and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of San Diego from the time of the indigenous people to the controversial mayoral election of 2004. Chapters cover the Spanish, Mexican, Victorian, WWI and WWII eras, and the post-war boom. Includes a 25-page chronology of events, plus bibliography and index.