In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months.
Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeansoffers a detailed reconstruction of the continent's geography, environment, and cultures as first encountered by European explorers and chroniclers.
A Venture in History: The Production, Publication, and Sale of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Harry Clark offers a revealing account of how one of the nineteenth century's most ambitious historical enterprises came into being.
This study details how the development and maturation of New Negro politics and thought were shaped not only by New York-based intellectuals and revolutionary transformations in Europe, but also by people, ideas, and organizations rooted in the South.
A Venture in History: The Production, Publication, and Sale of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Harry Clark offers a revealing account of how one of the nineteenth century's most ambitious historical enterprises came into being.
This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "e;white supremacy"e; in the state.
Helen Barrett Montgomery (1861-1934) was a social reformer, a Baptist luminary, and a prominent intellectual of the American women's ecumenical missionary movement.
The Mexican Revolution: Federal Expenditure and Social Change Since 1910 (Second Edition, Revised) provides a meticulously detailed analysis of the social and economic transformations spurred by Mexico's revolutionary policies over the course of the 20th century.
Lockheed has been one of American's largest corporations and most important defense contractors from World War II to the present day (since 1995 as part of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company).
American Chinatowns: Race, Identity, and Postwar Urban Redevelopment offers a captivating exploration of the vibrant yet contested landscapes of Chinatowns across the United States.
Essays in Population History: Mexico and California, Volume Three is the final volume of the Cook and Borah Essays, marking the conclusion of the collaborative work of Sherburne F.
The Mexican Revolution: Federal Expenditure and Social Change Since 1910 (Second Edition, Revised) provides a meticulously detailed analysis of the social and economic transformations spurred by Mexico's revolutionary policies over the course of the 20th century.
A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles by Susanna Bryant Dakin reconstructs the career and milieu of Hugo Reid-a Scottish trader turned Californio hacendado-through an extraordinary epistolary record, chiefly his 1836-1852 correspondence with Abel Stearns.
