Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840-1890 9781607322436, 9781607322429

Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape 9780520967540

Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeve

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Mercury, mining, and empire: the human and ecological cost of colonial silver mining in the Andes 9780253356512, 2011001625

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Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens 9780520959217

Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational move

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The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape 0816626928, 9780816626922

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Race and the Making of American Political Science 9780812294897

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that racial thought was central to the academic study of politic

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Race and the Making of American Political Science 0812250044, 9780812250046

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were cent

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Colonial Extractions: Race and Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa 9781442619951

Challenging Canada’s image as a humane, enlightened global actor, Colonial Extractions examines the troubling racial log

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The Valtellina and UNESCO : Making a Global Landscape 9780739173473, 9780739173466

Global in scope and transdisciplinary in method, this work examines the process through which local historic landscapes

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Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California 9780520964181

The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage j

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The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire 9780786752799

The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultur

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