Local history

This classic of American Indian ethnography, originally published in 1877, is again available in its complete form.

Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States.

He knew he was going blind.

To Place Our Deeds traces the development of the African American community in Richmond, California, a city on the San Francisco Bay.

In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations.

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Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion.

This concise book tells the absorbing story of the development of one of the greatest public institutions in the country.

California was perhaps the most important locus for the development of the Progressive reform movement in the decades of the twentieth century.

California was perhaps the most important locus for the development of the Progressive reform movement in the decades of the twentieth century.

The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities.

An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture.

This classic study offers a history of anti-Japanese prejudice in California, extending from the late nineteenth century to 1924, when an immigration act excluded Japanese from entering the United States.

A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history.

The Flint Hills are Americas last tallgrass prairie, a green enclave set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas.

The county town of Warwick is famous for its magnificent castle rising above the River Avon but there is much more to this historic town.

Folkestone's history goes back to the Anglo-Saxons and earlier settlements, and behind the facade of the elegant Edwardian resort, the port and today's thriving town and gateway to the Channel Tunnel lie many little-known and fascinating stories from its past.

We have a book in our hands that is the result of nearly thirty years spent collecting its material, compiling it, and presenting it in a readable and understandable way that is not satisfied with the old as it is and does not embrace the new without distinction.

This classic study offers a history of anti-Japanese prejudice in California, extending from the late nineteenth century to 1924, when an immigration act excluded Japanese from entering the United States.

In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences.

Since the founding of the United States, women have picked up their pens to write and express their ideas, affording them independence and self-sufficiency in days when they had little.

Starting with a brief history of western naval medical care from the ancient Greeks and proceeding to modern times, this book chronicles the evolution of the Navy's first west coast hospital, the Mare Island Naval Hospital, as it grew from a "e;palatial"e; but primitive facility in the 1860s to the Navy's premier amputee center for Marines and sailors returning from the brutal Pacific war.

The North London town of Edgware has a parish dating back to the Middle Ages and links further back to the ancient Watling Street.

As a market town conveniently located on major transport routes, Loughborough historically has offered visitors and inhabitants a large number of drinking establishments - pubs, taverns, coaching inns, post houses, alehouses - and the town was once home to the extensive Midland Brewery Company on Derby Road, close to the canal.

The spa town of Bath has drawn visitors since the Roman's built baths and a temple at the site of hot springs in the Avon valley.

Cumbria has been explored in many books over the years, but very little has been written about its rivers and yet, without them, the county would not have evolved in the way that it has.

Wales is one of the most haunted countries in the world, and its capital city is no exception.

Since the founding of the United States, women have picked up their pens to write and express their ideas, affording them independence and self-sufficiency in days when they had little.

In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation.

Situated almost on the border between England and Wales, Wrexham has a long and important history.

On 1 March 2022, Prince Charles attended the official ceremony in Southend-on-Sea to mark the town becoming a city.

Sussex is rich in remains of the prehistoric eras, from the earliest Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) era when stone tools were first developed by ancient hominids, through the other Stone Age eras (Mesolithic and Neolithic), to the Bronze and Iron Ages up to the Roman invasion of Britain.

Kent has an impressive collection of castles, over sixty including the scanty ruins and earthwork remains of now vanished ones, as well as the more celebrated castles, such as Leeds, Rochester and Dover.

There is evidence of human settlement at Ilkley in prehistoric and Roman times but the town grew rapidly in the nineteenth century when it became well known as a fashionable spa town, accessible to visitors by the new railway system.

Dorset has always been an important railway county, catering for holidaymakers heading to the resorts of Bournemouth, Swanage and Weymouth.

The town of Farnham in Surrey lies south-west of London, on the River Wey.

Wallasey expanded massively in the nineteenth century following the construction of the docks, which brought in a wealth of other industries, including shipbuilding.

Wiltshire's very landscape is steeped in folklore and mythology, with almost every hill, standing stone and barrow having its own stories and legends.

In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation.

When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false.

Discover London like never before with The London Year, your month-by-month guide to 200 of the city's most exciting, unusual and unforgettable events.

Spokane, Washington's first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sonsleaving her husband behind in Ohioin 1888.

Spokane, Washington's first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sonsleaving her husband behind in Ohioin 1888.

Youth culture is not an invention of twentieth-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities.

The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities.

Since their introduction in the 1950s, the Class 08, the most common type of British Rail shunter, has been found in almost every area of the UK.

The county of Carmarthenshire has an impressive military history and heritage which stretches back into the Iron Age.

Nassim Rajwan recalls the Jewish community he missed in Baghdad, which he grew up in from the 1920s until 1951 when he left Iraq.

The cathedral city of Truro is a major administrative and commercial centre in Cornwall.