Local history

Wrexham is the largest town in North Wales and since 1996 has been the centre of the county borough.

Forged through centuries of armed struggle and foreign domination, aggressive invaders, oppressive monarchs, and rebellious citizens have repeatedly clashed to create Berkshire's military heritage.

Somerset has a varied landscape, from upland Exmoor to the low-lying wetland levels and moors, and the mineral rich Mendips to the agricultural land of South Somerset.

"Esta obra forma parte de los proyectos del Plan Bilbao Aurrera 2021 del Ayuntamiento de Bilbao".

For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy.

Part personal memoir, part cultural history, West is a compendium of 'tales', telling the story of a unique geographical and literary landscape - the western Midlands of England.

The editors of Texas Monthly explore what it means to be a Texan in this anthology packed with essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from their renowned list of contributors.

Following the events of January 6, 2021, talk of vigilantes and mob violence have become a part of our daily discourse, reminding us that we haven't come as far as we thought from the ';wild' days of the Old West.

Més de 200 curiositats dividides per sis èpoques diferents, a més d'un epíleg amb els carrers principals, denominacions populars, refranys barcelonins, els orígens dels barris, etc.

Elvis is waiting outside in a big pink Caddy.

In late eighteenth-century Yorkshire a powerful gang of counterfeiters held the local community in its spell.

During the Industrial Revolution, the western valley of Gwent underwent a dramatic change to become one of the most important iron producing areas in Britain, with rich deposits of iron ore, coal and limestone.

Bicester: A Potted History covers the full history of the town, from the Roman settlement of Alchester that preceded it, through its Saxon, Tudor and Victorian developments, right up to the present day.

Despite a history stretching back almost 2,000 years, the City of London is one of the world's most modern, booming and yet unspoiled places to visit.

A reappraisal of this unique northern industrial town situated at the end of a long peninsula, Barrow-in-Furness Reflections seeks to record the changing face of the town over time.

Few counties can rival Essex's extensive and varied military history.

Newcastle upon Tyne has long been an important city in the north-east of England.

The largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey is situated 85 miles from the English coast and 14 miles from France.

Taunton has always had a special and significant place in Somerset's history.

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2024A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region.

This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens.

In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years-its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns.

San Diego in the 1930s offers a lively account of the city's culture, roadside attractions, and history-from the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom.

Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity.

First edition, Winner of the Arthur J.

Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico.

The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital.

From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live.

Shaped by the Westis a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens.

San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America.

California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression's most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private-they both divorced spouses to be together-collaborative, and richly productive.

In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations-dignified, collaborative, and illicit.

Since 1980, the number of people in U.

This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California's Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl.

Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism-all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history.

Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century.

There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State.

Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter.

On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream.

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture.

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No American state is more antistatist than Alaska.

The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged letter correspondence to remake themselvesfrom bodily integrity to subjectivity and collective and spiritual being.

When prospector Ed Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all hed find would be his own tombstone.

From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "e;stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity,"e; this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished.

An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the history of race relations in modern America.

Salvage of a sunken slave ship, devastating hurricanes and the odd doingsof locals such as Jimmy Buffett and Hemingway's cats.

This is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear.

Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.

In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes.