Author: William B. LardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California
Author: William B. LardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Outing and the Wheelman
Author: Placer County Citrus Colony, in the Lower Foothills of Placer County, California
Author: Placer County Citrus ColonyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citrus fruits
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Sunset
Author: Outing
Author: The Mosquito Crusades
Author: Gordon PattersonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547008
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Among the struggles of the twentieth century, the one between humans and mosquitoes may have been the most vexing, as demonstrated by the long battle to control these bloodsucking pests. As vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis, and dengue fever, mosquitoes forced open a new chapter in the history of medical entomology. Based on extensive use of primary sources, The Mosquito Crusades traces this saga and the parallel efforts of civic groups in New Jersey's Meadowlands and along San Francisco Bay's east side to manage the dangerous mosquito population. Providing readers with a fascinating exploration of the relationship between science, technology, and public policy, Gordon Patterson's narrative begins in New Jersey with John B. Smith's effort to develop a comprehensive plan and solution for mosquito control, one that would serve as a national model. From the Reed Commission's 1900 yellow fever experiment to the first Earth Day seventy years later, Patterson provides an eye-opening account of the crusade to curtail the deadly mosquito population.
Beasts of the Field
Author: Richard Steven StreetPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.
Cricket in America, 1710-2000
Author: P. David SentancePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786420405
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Cricket was played in Virginia in 1710 and was enjoyed on Georgia plantations in 1737. Teams representing New York and Philadelphia faced each other as early as 1838. By 1865, Philadelphia was considered the best cricket-playing city in the United States, competing against Canadian, English and Australian teams from 1890 to 1920. This 30 year span was essential to the formation of America's sports identity--and by its end, while the sport of baseball drew increasing attention, the game of cricket moved from being the game of America's aristocrats to a safe haven for America's nonwhite immigrants who were excluded from baseball because of Jim Crow laws. Here, the game's unique multi-ethnic, religious and cultural tradition in the United States is fully explored. The author explains cricket's ties to the beginnings of baseball and covers the ways in which the game continues to play an important role in America's inner cities.
Outing Magazine
Author: Poultney BigelowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Culture of the Citrus in California
Author: B. M. LelongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description