At Pyramid Lake [[electronic resource] /] / Bernard Mergen |
Autore | Mergen Bernard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reno, Nevada ; ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : , : University of Nevada Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina | 979.4/93 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-87417-940-8 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Survival of the Numa and Pyramid Lake -- Chapter 2. The Fate of the Lake -- Chapter 3. The Lake and Its Totem -- Chapter 4. Railroads, Ranches, and Dudes -- Chapter 5. Squatters and Sportsmen -- Chapter 6. Pyramid Lake Observed -- Chapter 7. Pyramid Lake, Mustangers, and "The Misfits" -- Chapter 8. Pyramid Lake Proclaimed -- Chapter 9. Seekers in the Desert -- Chapter 10. Pyramid Lake as Theater -- Epilogue. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789355003321 |
Mergen Bernard
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Reno, Nevada ; ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : , : University of Nevada Press, , 2014 | ||
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Building home [[electronic resource] ] : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream / / Eric John Abrahamson |
Autore | Abrahamson Eric John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina |
332.3/2092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Mortgage loans - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Savings and loan associations - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century American Dream - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-86030-9
0-520-95342-8 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Father as Mentor -- 2. Among the Lotus Eaters -- 3. Undertaker at a Plague -- 4. The Common Experience -- 5. Building Home -- 6. Scaling Up -- 7. Home and the State -- 8. Political Economy -- 9. Big Business -- 10. The Crest of a New Wave -- 11. Southland Patrician -- 12. Influence -- 13. Short of Domestic Bliss -- 14. Breakdown of Consensus -- 15. Crisis of the Managed Economy -- 16. A New Way of Life -- 17. A Personal Epic -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462928303321 |
Abrahamson Eric John
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
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Building home [[electronic resource] ] : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream / / Eric John Abrahamson |
Autore | Abrahamson Eric John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina |
332.3/2092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Mortgage loans - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Savings and loan associations - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century American Dream - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century america
biographical book club books books for history lovers building your own company california history chronicles ahmanson discussion books entrepreneurship history of the american dream history of western united states history how to manage a business how to start a business howard ahmanson industrial history leisure reads managed economy political economy risk management southern california success in postwar america successful entrepreneurs urban history vacation books |
ISBN |
1-283-86030-9
0-520-95342-8 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Father as Mentor -- 2. Among the Lotus Eaters -- 3. Undertaker at a Plague -- 4. The Common Experience -- 5. Building Home -- 6. Scaling Up -- 7. Home and the State -- 8. Political Economy -- 9. Big Business -- 10. The Crest of a New Wave -- 11. Southland Patrician -- 12. Influence -- 13. Short of Domestic Bliss -- 14. Breakdown of Consensus -- 15. Crisis of the Managed Economy -- 16. A New Way of Life -- 17. A Personal Epic -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786583103321 |
Abrahamson Eric John
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
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Homesteading the plains : toward a new history / / Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, Rebecca S. Wingo |
Autore | Edwards Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 344.7306363583 |
Soggetto topico |
Homestead law - United States - History
Land tenure - Law and legislation - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-4962-0229-5
1-4962-0231-7 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Competing Visions of Our Homesteading Past -- 2. Recalculating Homesteading's Reach and Success -- 3. Evolving Views on Homesteading Fraud -- 4. Estimating the Extent of Fraud -- 5. Homesteading and Indian Land Dispossession -- 6. Women Proving Up Their Claims -- 7. Mapping Community Formation -- 8. Envisioning a New History of Homesteading -- Appendix 1: An Annotated Review of GLO Circulars,1862-1904 -- Appendix 2: Sources for Chapter 5 Graphs and Maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794816803321 |
Edwards Richard
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Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017 | ||
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Homesteading the plains : toward a new history / / Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, Rebecca S. Wingo |
Autore | Edwards Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 344.7306363583 |
Soggetto topico |
Homestead law - United States - History
Land tenure - Law and legislation - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-4962-0229-5
1-4962-0231-7 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Competing Visions of Our Homesteading Past -- 2. Recalculating Homesteading's Reach and Success -- 3. Evolving Views on Homesteading Fraud -- 4. Estimating the Extent of Fraud -- 5. Homesteading and Indian Land Dispossession -- 6. Women Proving Up Their Claims -- 7. Mapping Community Formation -- 8. Envisioning a New History of Homesteading -- Appendix 1: An Annotated Review of GLO Circulars,1862-1904 -- Appendix 2: Sources for Chapter 5 Graphs and Maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825052503321 |
Edwards Richard
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Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017 | ||
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Making an American workforce : the Rockefellers and the legacy of Ludlow / / edited by Fawn-Amber Montoya |
Autore | Montoya Fawn-Amber |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 213 pages ) |
Disciplina | 331.7/6691420978855 |
Soggetto topico |
Industrial welfare - Colorado - Ludlow - History
Americanization - Colorado - Ludlow - History |
ISBN | 1-60732-310-9 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787013103321 |
Montoya Fawn-Amber
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Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Making an American workforce : the Rockefellers and the legacy of Ludlow / / edited by Fawn-Amber Montoya |
Autore | Montoya Fawn-Amber |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 213 pages ) |
Disciplina | 331.7/6691420978855 |
Soggetto topico |
Industrial welfare - Colorado - Ludlow - History
Americanization - Colorado - Ludlow - History |
ISBN | 1-60732-310-9 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827886203321 |
Montoya Fawn-Amber
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Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Making an American workforce : the Rockefellers and the legacy of Ludlow / / edited by Fawn-Amber Montoya |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 213 pages ) |
Disciplina | 331.7/6691420978855 |
Soggetto topico |
Industrial welfare - Colorado - Ludlow - History
Americanization - Colorado - Ludlow - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-60732-310-9 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460192003321 |
Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2014 | ||
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River city and valley life : an environmental history of the Sacramento region / / edited by Christopher J. Castaneda and Lee M. A. Simpson ; Steven M. Avella [and sixteen others], contributors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.209794/5 |
Collana | History of the Urban Environment |
Soggetto topico | City planning - Environmental aspects - California - Sacramento - History |
ISBN | 0-8229-7918-7 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Indomitable City and Its Environmental Context / Steven M. Avella -- Part I. Boomtown Sacramento -- John A. Sutter and the Indian Business / Albert L. Hurtado -- River City : Sacramento's Gold Rush Birth and Transfiguration / Kenneth N. Owens -- "We Must Give the World Confidence in the Stability and Permanence of the Place" : Planning Sacramento's Townsite, 1853-1870 / Nathan Hallam -- Railroads and the Urban Environment : Sacramento's Story / Richard J. Orsi -- Part II. Valley Reclamation -- The Perils of Agriculture in Sacramento's Untamed Hinterland / David Vaught -- Rivers of Gold, Valley of Conquest : The Business of Levees and Dams in the Capital City / Todd Holmes -- Forging Transcontinental Alliances : The Sacramento River Valley in National Drainage and Flood Control Politics, 1900-1917 / Anthony E. Carlson -- Both "Country Town" and "Bustling Metropolis" : How Boosterism, Suburbs, and Narrative Helped Shape Sacramento's Identity and Environmental Sensibilities / Paul J.P. Sandul -- Part III. Government Town -- Unseen Investment : New Deal Sacramento / Gray Brechin and Lee M.A. Simpson -- The Legacy of War : Sacramento's Military Bases / Rand Herbert -- Recalling Rancho Seco : Voicing a Nuclear Past / Christopher J. Castaneda -- Part IV. Reclaiming the Past -- Dreams, Realizations, and Nightmares : The American River Parkway's Tumultuous Life, 1915-2011 / Alfred E. Holland, Jr. -- Thunder over the Valley : Environmental Politics and Indian Gaming in California / Tanis C. Thorne -- The Invention of Old Sacramento : A Past for the Future / Lee M.A. Simpson and Lisa C. Prince -- Epilogue: Sacramento, Before and After the Gold Rush / Ty O. Smith. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789381303321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2013 | ||
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River city and valley life : an environmental history of the Sacramento region / / edited by Christopher J. Castaneda and Lee M. A. Simpson ; Steven M. Avella [and sixteen others], contributors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.209794/5 |
Collana | History of the Urban Environment |
Soggetto topico | City planning - Environmental aspects - California - Sacramento - History |
ISBN | 0-8229-7918-7 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Indomitable City and Its Environmental Context / Steven M. Avella -- Part I. Boomtown Sacramento -- John A. Sutter and the Indian Business / Albert L. Hurtado -- River City : Sacramento's Gold Rush Birth and Transfiguration / Kenneth N. Owens -- "We Must Give the World Confidence in the Stability and Permanence of the Place" : Planning Sacramento's Townsite, 1853-1870 / Nathan Hallam -- Railroads and the Urban Environment : Sacramento's Story / Richard J. Orsi -- Part II. Valley Reclamation -- The Perils of Agriculture in Sacramento's Untamed Hinterland / David Vaught -- Rivers of Gold, Valley of Conquest : The Business of Levees and Dams in the Capital City / Todd Holmes -- Forging Transcontinental Alliances : The Sacramento River Valley in National Drainage and Flood Control Politics, 1900-1917 / Anthony E. Carlson -- Both "Country Town" and "Bustling Metropolis" : How Boosterism, Suburbs, and Narrative Helped Shape Sacramento's Identity and Environmental Sensibilities / Paul J.P. Sandul -- Part III. Government Town -- Unseen Investment : New Deal Sacramento / Gray Brechin and Lee M.A. Simpson -- The Legacy of War : Sacramento's Military Bases / Rand Herbert -- Recalling Rancho Seco : Voicing a Nuclear Past / Christopher J. Castaneda -- Part IV. Reclaiming the Past -- Dreams, Realizations, and Nightmares : The American River Parkway's Tumultuous Life, 1915-2011 / Alfred E. Holland, Jr. -- Thunder over the Valley : Environmental Politics and Indian Gaming in California / Tanis C. Thorne -- The Invention of Old Sacramento : A Past for the Future / Lee M.A. Simpson and Lisa C. Prince -- Epilogue: Sacramento, Before and After the Gold Rush / Ty O. Smith. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825355303321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2013 | ||
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