Crossing California
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Crossing California
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Author : Adam Langer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2005-05-03
Crossing California written by Adam Langer and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-03 with Fiction categories.
Crossing California is a cinematic and unforgettable look at the end of an era, the turning point when the idealism of the sixties gave way to the pragmatism of the eighties. California Avenue, in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, separates the upper-middle-class Jewish families on the west from the mostly middle-class Jewish households east of the divide. This funny and heartbreaking novel, which spans the Iran hostage crisis through the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as president, tells the story of three families and their teenage children living on either side of California. It follows their loves, heartaches, friendships, and losses during a memorable and defining moment of American history.
Crossing California
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Author : Adam Langer
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
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Pacific Crossing
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Author : Elizabeth Sinn
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Pacific Crossing written by Elizabeth Sinn and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with History categories.
During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by their long journeys back and forth. They in turn transformed Hong Kong, their main point of embarkation, from a struggling infant colony into a prosperous international port and the cultural center of a far-ranging Chinese diaspora. Making use of extensive research in archives around the world, Pacific Crossing charts the rise of Chinese Gold Mountain firms engaged in all kinds of transpacific trade, especially the lucrative export of prepared opium and other luxury goods. Challenging the traditional view that the migration was primarily a "coolie trade," Elizabeth Sinn uncovers leadership and agency among the many Chinese who made the crossing. In presenting Hong Kong as an "in-between place" of repeated journeys and continuous movement, Sinn also offers a fresh view of the British colony and a new paradigm for migration studies.
Sierra Crossing
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Author : Thomas Frederick Howard
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-06-30
Sierra Crossing written by Thomas Frederick Howard and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-30 with History categories.
A critical era in California's history and development—the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada—is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast by a sea journey of at least six weeks. Although Californians expected to be connected with the other states by railroad soon after the 1849 Gold Rush, almost twenty years elapsed before this occurred. Meanwhile, various overland road ventures were launched by "emigrants," former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs whose alliances with one another were constantly shifting. The broad landscape of international affairs is also a part of Howard's story. Constructing roads and accumulating geographic information in the Sierra Nevada reflected Washington's interest in securing the vast western territories formerly held by others. In a remarkably short time the Sierra was transformed by vigorous exploration, road-promotion, and road-building. Ox-drawn wagons gave way to stagecoaches able to provide service as fine as any in the country. Howard effectively uses diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and official reports to recreate the human struggle and excitement involved in building the first trans-Sierra roads. Some of those roads have become modern highways used by thousands every day, while others are now only dim traces in the lonely backcountry.
Crossing California
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Author : Sam McManis
language : en
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Crossing California written by Sam McManis and has been published by Linden Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Travel categories.
Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California. He discovered that there is more than one California, but every different California is equally weird and wonderful. Worlds collide and commingle: the neo-hippies with the rednecked farmers; the urban sophisticates with the quirky desert dwellers; the Hollywood power brokers with the outsider artists. Brought together in a bouillabaisse of voices, Crossing California will make you see the state in an entirely new light.
Railroad Crossing
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Author : William Deverell
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994
Railroad Crossing written by William Deverell and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
"Deverell's book will immediately become the one to reckon with in the future historiography of the railroad in California."—R. Hal Williams, Southern Methodist University
San Francisco Municipal Reports For The Fiscal Year
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Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
San Francisco Municipal Reports For The Fiscal Year written by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Municipal government categories.
San Francisco Municipal Reports
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Author : San Francisco (Calif.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
San Francisco Municipal Reports written by San Francisco (Calif.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Land titles categories.
Municipal Reports For The Fiscal Year
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Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
Municipal Reports For The Fiscal Year written by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with San Francisco (Calif.) categories.
By Ox Team To California
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Author : Lavinia Honeyman Porter
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-26
By Ox Team To California written by Lavinia Honeyman Porter and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
By Ox Team to California is a firsthand account of a pioneer woman's journey across the West in 1860. The author brings thrilling and exciting stories from a 2000 miles journey from Hannibal, Missouri, to California, via Colorado and Utah.