Local 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.

Historian Carlos A.

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.

Hiking Washingtons History reveals the stories embedded in Washingtons landscape.

For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making.

Bill Roberts is an 82-year-old cowboy from Florida.

By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions.

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muirs most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing.

Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed '49er, the intrepid sodbuster.

In June 1876 the 7th U.

Father James R.

Raised on Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, we know what it means to get outta Dodgeto make a hasty escape from a dangerous place, like the Dodge City of Wild West lore.

In May 1891, Joe Quigley embarked on a journey north to try his luck prospecting for gold in Alaska.

In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence.

The graveyards of old New England hold an incredible range of poetic messages in the epitaphs etched into the gravestones, each a profound expression of emotion, culture, religion, and literature.

This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States.

Maine's premier tourist destination, Bar Harbor has many historic buildings.

In the first decades of the 1800s, white Americans entered the rugged lands of Arkansas, which they had little explored before.

The path of Grand Prix racing in America wound through raceways at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, and finally Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training.

The book provides a comprehensive history of the third-largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and urban historiography.

After the Civil War, the New York City's East River was a massive unsolved and dangerous navigation problem.