Author: State Library of Wisconsin (MADISON, Wisconsin)
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Catalogue of the State Library of Wisconsin. 1872. [With a Preface by O. M. C.]
Author: State Library of Wisconsin (MADISON, Wisconsin)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Mining California
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Catalogue of the State Library of Wisconsin
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368165054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368165054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
An American Genocide
Author: Benjamin Madley
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300181361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials' culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300181361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials' culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.
California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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United States Government Publications: The legislative body : Congress, the Senate, the House of Representatives
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Category : Cataloging of government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
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Category : Cataloging of government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
This Bittersweet Soil
Author: Sucheng Chan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The role of the Chinese in California agriculture during the later decades of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century was an integral aspect of the agricultural history of the western United States. Although the number of Chinese involved in agricultural occupations at one time never exceeded 6000 to 7000 workers, their lack of numbers does not diminish their impact. Author Chan, of Chinese origin, has made extensive use of census records and county archival sources to produce the first full history of the Chinese in California agriculture.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The role of the Chinese in California agriculture during the later decades of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century was an integral aspect of the agricultural history of the western United States. Although the number of Chinese involved in agricultural occupations at one time never exceeded 6000 to 7000 workers, their lack of numbers does not diminish their impact. Author Chan, of Chinese origin, has made extensive use of census records and county archival sources to produce the first full history of the Chinese in California agriculture.
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Message and Reports to the General Assembly and Governor of the State of Ohio for the Year ..
Author: Ohio
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices including the Adjutant General, Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Quartermaster, etc.
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices including the Adjutant General, Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Quartermaster, etc.