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When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants - regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work looks at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture.

Studies the experience of twelve countries that have broken through the limits that low incomes so often impose on human survival. This title presents an analysis that suggests an alternative model of growth in which the measure of a nation's success is not its per capita income but the life expectancy of its population.

In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. This title shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen form of urbanism that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation.

Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This work explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia.

Illustrates the remarkable achievements of one of the great empires of the West, from the traditional date of Rome's founding - 754 BCE - until the fall of the Western Empire in 476 CE, the year in which the last emperor, the boy Romulus Augustus, was deposed by the Goths and the imperial insignia was sent to Constantinople.

Using nearly 500 historical maps and many other illustrations - from rough sketches drawn in the field to commercial maps to beautifully rendered works of art - this illustrated work tells the story of California's past from a visual perspective. It offers an informative look at the transformation of the state from before European contact.

Maps a series of historical events - since the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. This book presents an examination of India as represented in department stores, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era.

Explores the remarkable religious renaissance that reformed, revitalized, and renewed the practices of Buddhism and Daoism in Taiwan. This book connects these developments to Taiwan's transition to democracy and the burgeoning needs of its middle classes. It demonstrates that the Taiwan religious renaissance embraces a democratic modernity.

Presents a perspective on the history of forced migration over 3 centuries and illuminates the centrality of movements of people in making of this world. This book traces the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans.

An assessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the US. It offers discussion of topics such as dangers of popular vote, Athens' acquisitive foreign policy, the tendency of the state to overspend, and the place of religion in Athenian society.

Explores the railroad's development and influence - especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment - and offers a fresh perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West.

An analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images that links economic change to social and cultural change in the New Mexico. It charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades of the eighteenth century.

Explores the remarkable diversity of life in this harsh yet fragile quarter of the Golden State. This book illuminates how that diversity, created by drought and heat, has evolved with climate change since the Ice Ages. It also takes the measure of the ecological condition of these deserts, presenting issues of conservation and restoration.

Describes the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. This book focuses on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels of biological organization - individuals, populations, species, and clades.

Alton Augustus Adams, Sr, was a musician, writer, hotelier, and the first black bandmaster of the United States Navy. Born in the Virgin Islands in 1889, Adams joined the US military in 1917. This memoir reveals him as an inspired activist who believed music could change the world, mitigate racism, and bring prosperity to his island home.

A guide to California's trees, it provides a photographic compendium of 107 native and 311 ornamental species. It gives the what, how, and where of tree selection, planting, and design, paying attention to the need for improving sustainability. It features an overview of topography, geography and climates that define California's unique landscape.

Investigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. This book traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the 18th century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews.

Aims to convey the diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrates how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. This book includes sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species.

Contains sixteen essays on monarchy and power in the Hellenistic period. This title focuses attention on biblical and Jewish evidence. It features essays that consider the kings, queens, and power figures of the Hellenistic dynasties, as well as ancient Israelite kings, the Babylonian and Persian rulers of the Bible, Parthians, and Romans.

Illuminating the course of American broadcasting, this work offers a comprehensive view of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) that brings into focus the development of this key American institution and the ways that it has intersected with, and influenced, the central events of our times.

Explores such topics as the classical liberal tradition, postmodernism's challenge to the American 'Enlightenment', the civil rights era, the influence of twentieth-century radicals on American liberalism, the 1950s, tolerance, the cold war, and whether liberalism should have a large and aggressive vision.

An ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music that engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. It explores gospelypso, jamoo ('Jehovah's music'), and gospel dancehall.

Contains commentary on the Purgatorio by various scholars. This book presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. It provides awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements.

Explores children's art and its history. This book addresses central questions of how children use art to make sense of their experience and what really constitutes visual 'giftedness' in children. It also covers such topics as visual thinking, and the influence of popular culture on children's drawings.

Talks about the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. This book reflects on the momentum of LA's progressive movement, including the 2005 landslide victory of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor.

Looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements - from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. This work describes Conjure and other related traditions, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking.

Presents a picture of how movies entered the American heartland. This book examines the social and cultural changes this form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond.

Offers guidance on how to plan a garden with birds, plants, and insects in mind; how to shape it with trees and shrubs, paths and trails, ponds, and other features; and, how to cultivate, maintain, and harvest seeds and food from a diverse array of native annuals and perennials.

Between Monterey Bay and Ventura County's Santa Monica Mountains lie some of California's most spectacular coastal destinations. This guide includes descriptions of more than 310 beaches, parks, campgrounds, nature preserves, natural history museums, and outdoor recreation sites on or near the coast; and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.