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"The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration,violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti discusses both established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context"--
Borderlands --- West (U.S.) --- Historiography. --- Colonization. --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States
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If the word ""hero"" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's g
Explorers --- Conservationists --- Powell, John Wesley, --- Powell, Wes, --- Powell, J. W. --- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) --- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Discovery and exploration. --- E-books
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Many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary as e-mail and text messages are today. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving world of telecommunications. This fascinating history traces these shifts from their beginnings in the mid-1800s, when cheaper postage, mass literacy, and migration combined to make the long-established postal service a more integral and viable part
Communication. --- Postal service. --- Business. --- Postal service --- Communication --- Transportation Economics --- Business & Economics --- History --- Social aspects --- Mail --- Mail service --- Post-office --- Carriers --- Communication and traffic --- Transportation --- communication, social change, post office, letters, correspondance, postal network, telecommunications, postage, literacy, migration, civil war, gold rush, immigration, race, poverty, junk mail, valentines, antebellum, history, nonfiction, news, urban, family, mass mailing, information, intimacy, connection, distance, pioneers, american west, frontier, labor, travel, relocation, homestead.
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A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, ""'Worldview' refers to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it."" In Worldviews and the American West, seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply Toelken's ideas about worldview to the American West.
Minorities --- Ethnophilosophy --- Folklore --- Group identity --- Social life and customs. --- West (U.S.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Civilization. --- In literature. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Folk philosophy --- Indigenous peoples --- Philosophy, Primitive --- Primitive philosophy --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Philosophy --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Cognition and culture --- Ethnology --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation
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Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West-in other words, portrayal of the West as the "Orient"-has been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer notable examples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding that range and significance, especially to the western part of the continent, means coming to terms with the complicated, nuanced ideas of the Orient and of the North American continent that
Asian influences. --- Foreign public opinion, American. --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Annexations --- East and West. --- Orientalism --- History. --- West (U.S.) --- United States --- Asia --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- Territorial expansion. --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- East and West --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia
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It is not the purpose of this work to propose a specific format for the settlement of the city's current difficulties with the valley, to resolve the environmental questions associated with Los Angeles's proposed groundwater pumping program, or to promote any cause associated with the developing situation in the Owens Valley. But by performing the essential historical task of separating what happened from what did not, and by distinguishing in this way the choices which have been made from those which have yet to be decided, it is my hope that this effort will help to establish that common basis for understanding which is essential for the debate over specific issues to proceed most effectively. This book, then, is scarcely the last word on the Owens Valley conflict: the final chapter, after all, has yet to be written. The story that has emerged here is at once very different and more troubling than the conventional treatments of the conflict as a simplistic political morality play. Any attempt to deal with so controversial a subject, however, is almost certain to spark controversy itself. For that reason, with the exception of a small collection of private letters, this work is constructed entirely from the published documents and other materials available to the general public, anchoring the narrative in sources the reader can consult to trace the line of my argument on any point with which he or she may disagree. In addition, the work as a whole has been reviewed for technical accuracy by officials of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, although the department is in no way responsible for the content of this study or the conclusions drawn from it.
Water-supply --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- american west. --- california. --- chinatown. --- city planning. --- conservation. --- drought. --- dust control. --- ecology. --- environment. --- environmental history. --- environmental justice. --- environmental questions. --- environmentalism. --- fred eaton. --- government. --- groundwater. --- jp lipincott. --- los angeles. --- natural resources. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- owens valley. --- politics. --- railroad barons. --- san fernando valley. --- urban environment. --- urbanism. --- water history. --- water policy. --- water resources. --- water scarcity. --- water supply. --- water wars. --- water. --- william mulholland.
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Energy shortages, climate change, and the debate over national security have thrust oil policy to the forefront of American politics. How did Americans grow so dependent on petroleum, and what can we learn from our history that will help us craft successful policies for the future? In this timely and absorbing book, Paul Sabin challenges us to see politics and law as crucial forces behind the dramatic growth of the U.S. oil market during the twentieth century. Using pre-World War II California as a case study of oil production and consumption, Sabin demonstrates how struggles in the legislature and courts over property rights, regulatory law, and public investment determined the shape of the state's petroleum landscape. Sabin provides a powerful corrective to the enduring myth of "free markets" by demonstrating how political decisions affected the institutions that underlie California's oil economy and how the oil market and price structure depend significantly on the ways in which policy questions were answered before World War II. His concise and probing analysis casts fresh light on the historical relationship between business and government and on the origins of contemporary problems such as climate change and urban sprawl. Incisive, engaging, and meticulously researched, Crude Politics illuminates an important chapter in U.S. environmental, legal, business, and political history and the history of the American West.
Petroleum industry and trade --- Energy policy --- Political aspects --- History --- Government policy --- alternative energy. --- american west. --- big business. --- california oil. --- california. --- climate change. --- crude oil. --- energy. --- environment. --- environmental issues. --- environmentalism. --- foreign policy. --- fossil fuels. --- frontier. --- global warming. --- government policy. --- government regulation. --- government. --- land rights. --- middle east. --- mineral rights. --- national security. --- nonfiction. --- oil consumption. --- oil economy. --- oil market. --- oil policy. --- oil production. --- petroleum. --- property rights. --- renewable energy. --- saudi arabia. --- terrorism. --- urban sprawl.
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The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate.
Land use. --- Railroads. --- Railroads - California - History. --- Water resources development. --- Railroads --- Water resources development --- Land use --- Transportation Economics --- Business & Economics --- History --- Southern Pacific Railroad Company --- Southern Pacific Company --- History. --- West (U.S.) --- Economic conditions --- Environmental conditions --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Southern Pacific Lines --- SP (Southern Pacific) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Pacific Mail Steamship Company --- Santa Fe Industries --- Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation --- Central Pacific Railway Company --- Oregon Eastern Railway --- Union Pacific Railroad Company --- Modoc Northern Railway Company --- Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company
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"Building on her path-breaking work on Chinese in mining areas of the American West, Sue Fawn Chung takes up the topic of Chinese in the nineteenth century lumber industry in this new book. Chinese immigrants were key participants in logging and lumbering, in some cases constituting as much as 90 percent of the lumbering workforce. Chung sets out the background of interest in logging in China and examines the Chinese and American labor contractors, the community organizations and networks that supported them, and some of the reasons Chinese were attracted to logging in the west. She explicates their work, lifestyle, and wages, the lumber companies that employed them, their relationship with other ethnic groups, and the reasons for their departure from this occupation, including tightening immigration restrictions. Among other findings, Chung shows that Chinese performed most of the tasks that Euro-American lumbermen did, that their salaries for the same type of work in some places were not necessarily lower than the prevailing wage for non-Asian workers and in some cases even higher, that although some were separated in their work from other ethnic groups, some developed close relationships with their fellow workers and employers, and that Chinese camp cooks were valued and paid equal or better wages than their Euro-American counterparts. When they were treated unfairly, Chinese often brought their cases before the American courts and through the legal system won the right to buy and sell timberland and to obtain equal wages in logging. Based on exhaustive archival work, this project will expand understandings of the Chinese in the West and in working class history"--Provided by publisher.
E-books --- Lumber trade --- Working class --- Immigrants --- Chinese --- Lumbermen --- Loggers --- Foreign workers, Chinese --- Social aspects --- History --- West (U.S.) --- Ethnic relations --- Economic conditions --- Lumber industry --- Timber industry --- Forest products industry --- Lumbering --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Ethnology --- Buckers (Persons) --- Fallers (Persons) --- Lumberjacks --- Timber buckers (Persons) --- Timber fallers (Persons) --- Alien labor, Chinese --- Chinese foreign workers --- Employment --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States
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The American West at Risk summarises the dominant human-generated environmental challenges facing the 11 contiguous arid western United States. The importance of this story is that protecting lands and soil also protects air and water quality, and water supplies, which are critical support for our lives and our health.
Nature conservation --- Conservation of natural resources --- Nature --- Land use --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Environmental protection --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Conservation of nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Effect of human beings on --- Environmental aspects --- Conservation --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Environmental conditions. --- E-books
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