<p>"The Elusive Eden" charts the historical development of California, beginning with the evolution of the landscape and climate and the arrival of the first inhabitants, the Indians, through social, political and environmental controversies of the present and the future. The book portrays a land of remarkable richness and complexity, settled by waves of people from diverse cultures. The text is organized chronologically into 10 parts, each developing a major theme or issue for a particular period in California's history. The first chapter of each part is a narrative that spotlights and dramatizes the personal responses of significant individuals at critical moments of historical change. The authors stress issues of current importance such as: ethnic groups, women, environmental history and social and cultural history.</p>

The Elusive Eden: A New History of California

History

Rice, Richard

Bullough, William A.

Americas

McGraw=Hill

Orsi, Richard J.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

KNOPF

The blind boss & his city: Christopher Augustine Buckley and nineteenth-century San Francisco

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

University of California Press

<p>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.</p>

Blind Boss and His City: Christopher Augustine Buckley and Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Cities and Schools in the Gilded Age: The Evolution of an Urban Institution

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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