Author: Felix Paul WierzbickiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
California as it Is, and as it May Be, Or, A Guide to the Gold Region
Author: Felix Paul WierzbickiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
California as it is & as it May Be; Or, A Guide to the Gold Region
Author: Felix Paul WierzbickiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Felix Paul Wierzbicki (1815-1860) left his native Poland after participating in the doomed revolution of 1830. He made his way to America where he received a medical degree and practiced in Providence, Rhode Island. When the Mexican War broke out, Wierzbicki enlisted in the Army and was sent to California. Wierzbicki left the Army shortly after reaching the West and practiced medicine until the discovery of gold drew him to prospecting on Mokelumne Hill. In 1849, he returned to San Francisco, where he spent the rest of his life. California as it is (1849) was the first English-language book printed in California. It is a valuable guide to California for prospective settlers that includes a survey of agriculture, hints on gold mining, a guide to San Francisco, and a chapter on California's Hispanic residents and Native American tribes.
"California as it Is"
Author: California as it is , and as it may be
Author: F.P. WierzbickiPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732657183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: California as it is , and as it may be by F.P. Wierzbicki
A View of California as It is
Author: Joseph WeedPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368806254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Right Out of California
Author: Kathryn S. OlmstedPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620970961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR's New Deal. Right Out of California tells how this brief moment of upheaval terrified business leaders into rethinking their relationship to American politics--a narrative that pits a ruthless generation of growers against a passionate cast of reformers, writers, and revolutionaries. Olmsted reveals how California's businessmen learned the language of populism with the help of allies in the media and entertainment industries, and in the process created a new style of politics: corporate funding of grassroots groups, military-style intelligence gathering against political enemies, professional campaign consultants, and alliances between religious and economic conservatives. The business leaders who battled for the hearts and minds of Depression-era California, moreover, would go on to create the organizations that launched the careers of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. A riveting history in its own right, Right Out of California is also a vital chapter in our nation's political transformation whose echoes are still felt today"--
Life As a Prospector in the California Gold Rush
Author: Kate ShoupPublisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1502617803
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
People often dream of becoming rich. However, in the mid-1800s, people really could become rich overnight. The California gold rush brought many men to the area. These prospectors searched for gold. Some became lucky, while others lost all of their life savings. This book describes the history of the California gold rush and highlights what life was like for the men, women, and children who lived through the era.
California Dreaming
Author: Christine Bacareza BalancePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824872061
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of “Asian America” through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California’s imaginary. Here, “California” is interpreted as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking the state’s cultural imaginary, labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world. Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and studies of the “Golden State” as the embodiment of “frontier mentality” and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal, regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural production. The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity of California’s landscape and labor in the production of arts and culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming foregrounds “sensing” and “imagining” place, vividly, as it hopes to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement. In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today, paving the way for what is yet to be.
State of Resistance
Author: Manuel PastorPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973308
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
“Concise, clear and convincing. . . a vision for the country as a whole.” —James Fallows, The New York Times Book Review A leading sociologist's brilliant and revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more may be found in California Once upon a time, any mention of California triggered unpleasant reminders of Ronald Reagan and right-wing tax revolts, ballot propositions targeting undocumented immigrants, and racist policing that sparked two of the nation's most devastating riots. In fact, California confronted many of the challenges the rest of the country faces now—decades before the rest of us. Today, California is leading the way on addressing climate change, low-wage work, immigrant integration, overincarceration, and more. As white residents became a minority and job loss drove economic uncertainty, California had its own Trump moment twenty-five years ago, but has become increasingly blue over each of the last seven presidential elections. How did the Golden State manage to emerge from its unsavory past to become a bellwether for the rest of the country? Thirty years after Mike Davis's hellish depiction of California in City of Quartz, the award-winning sociologist Manuel Pastor guides us through a new and improved California, complete with lessons that the nation should heed. Inspiring and expertly researched, State of Resistance makes the case for honestly engaging racial anxiety in order to address our true economic and generational challenges, a renewed commitment to public investments, the cultivation of social movements and community organizing, and more.
California as it Is, and as it May Be, Or a Guide to the Gold Region
Author: Feliks Paweł WierzbickiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
