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California The Great Exception

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.04.1999

Verlag

University Of California Press

Seitenzahl

391

Maße (L/B/H)

23/15.5/2.5 cm

Gewicht

544 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-520-21893-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.04.1999

Verlag

University Of California Press

Seitenzahl

391

Maße (L/B/H)

23/15.5/2.5 cm

Gewicht

544 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-520-21893-2

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: California
  • FOREWORD BY LEWIS H. LAPHAM

    CHAPTER I. ON UNDERSTANDING CALIFORNIA

    CHAPTER II. CALIFORNIA-THERE SHE GOES!
    1. Tipping the Scales
    2. Change Is Cumulative
    3· Westchester, the Water Baby
    4· California's Growing Pains
    5. Planning by Indirection

    CHAPTER III. THE MAGIC EQUATION
    1. Poor Man's Gold Rush
    2. California: The Mining Entrepreneur
    3· The Something for Nothing Business
    4· The Lightning's Bolt

    CHAPTER IV. THE MUSTANG COLT
    1. California: The Outsider
    2. The Thirty-first Star
    3· The Dignity of Labor
    4· The Blanket without the Indian
    5. The Flag of the Bear
    6. The Precocious Frontier
    7· Union-With a Difference

    CHAPTER V. MIXED MULTITUDES
    1. Gold Sets the Pattern
    2. Like a Gourd in the Night
    3· What Was Your Name in the States?
    4· A Quilt of Many Colors
    5· Old and Young in California
    6. The Origin of Gallantry
    7. A State of Cities
    8. Population Whirligig

    CHAPTER VI. CALIFORNIA LATIFUNDIA
    1. Frontier without Homesteads
    2. The Rape of the Public Domain
    3. The Meaning of Land Monopoly

    CHAPTER VII. THE MOSAIC OF CALIFORNIA'S
    AGRICULTURE
    1. Her Infinite Variety
    2. America's Natural Hothouse
    3. The Meaning of Specialization
    4. The World in Miniature
    5. Challenge and Response
    6. The Advantages of Organization

    CHAPTER VIII. CALIFORNIA LABOR: TOTAL
    ENGAGEMENT
    1. No Affinity with Bondage
    2. "The Magic Scepter"
    3. The Economics of Extremism
    4. Labor's Curious Ducklings
    5· The Pattern of Violence

    CHAPTER IX. CALIFORNIA'S PECULIAR
    INSTITUTION
    I. The Grapes of Wrath Are Stored
    2. The Labor Pool
    3. The System of Control
    4. The Plot Never Changes
    5. Of the Valleys

    CHAPTER X. PERILOUS REMEDIES FOR
    PRESENT EVILS
    I. Kearneyism in California
    2. The Union Labor Party
    3. Kearneyism Re-enacted
    4. The Revolt of the Thirties
    5. California's Bloody Shirt
    6. Homebred Knight-Errant
    7. The Hidden Spring

    CHAPTER XI. THE STATE THAT SWINGS
    AND SWAYS
    I. The Bulge in the Middle
    2. The Guy Who Gets Things Done
    3. Campaigns, Inc.
    4. Sacramento: Commodity Market

    CHAPTER XII. INDUSTRY: THE CULTURAL
    APPROACH
    I. The Momentum of an Early Start
    2. The Edge of Novelty
    3· Local Needs and New Markets
    4. Bull of the West

    CHAPTER XIII. THE FABULOUS BOOM
    I. The Long-Term Trend
    2. The Emergence of Western Steel
    3· The Question of Power
    4· The Price of Expansion
    5. Technology and the West

    CHAPTER XIV. LADDER TO THE STARS
    I. Certain California Eccentrics
    2. The Development of Mt. Wilson
    3· Not the Moon
    4· Science in an Orange Grove
    5. Antennas on a Mountain Top
    6. The Right Side of the Mountains

    CHAPTER XV. THE ONE-LEGGED GIANT
    I. Climate without Weather
    2. The Drouth of I948
    3· Geological Waters
    4· The Intrusion of Salt
    5. How Not to Conserve Water
    6. The Outlying Coastal Districts
    7. The Flood Paradoxical
    8. Brush Fires and Burns

    CHAPTER XVI. THE POLITICS OF THE
    COLORADO
    1. Menace or Resource?
    2. Water Imperialism
    3· Nature's Freak: The Imperial Valley
    4· The Over-Division of Water

    CHAPTER XVII. THE CENTRAL VALLEY
    PROJECT
    1. California-Upside Down
    2. Genesis of the Project
    3. The Intrepid Colonel
    4· Giant of Giants
    5. The Irrelevant Cow Company
    6. The Power Question
    7. State vs. Federal Control

    CHAPTER XVIII. 0 PANTHER OF THE SPLENDID HIDE!
    1. The Problem of California
    2. The End of Exceptionalism
    3· Jack and Jill
    4· California the Tiger
    5. On Western Unity
    6. The Future Is West