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In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley flooded annually and an inland sea formed during the rainy season, draining away by the summer months. This text documents and analyzes the processes and widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the valley from flood.

Late-19th-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. This text explores the aesthetic politics of the "cult of vernacular", and reveals the origins of the trend.

Provides a detailed picture of the early careers of four architects - Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk, Ernest Coxhead and A.C. Schweinfurth - who had a decisive impact on the course of design in the San Francisco Bay Area and who stand as significant contributors to American architecture.

Many artists and scholars were forced to migrate from Nazi Germany. Their story is twofold, of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this collection, which approaches the subject from diverse perspectives.

Analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. This book argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that the controversy was over definitions of Hindu tradition, the place of ritual in religious worship, the civilizing missions of colonialism and evangelism, and the proper role of the colonial state.

Including over 60 short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, this anthology collects together Mexican American writings about the US war in Southeast Asia. It analyzes the antiwar movement, the Catholic Church, traditional Mexican American groups, and a feminist consciousness among Chicanas.

A study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.

Tracing Jiang's beginnings as a student in Shanghai through to his appointment by Deng Xiaoping as party general secretary and his sudden elevation to central authority in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing, the author offers a look at how Jiang Zemin has secured his position as one of the world's most powerful figures.

This text is a mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi.

An account that provides a perspective on one of the significant legal struggles in American history: the Nixon administration's efforts to prohibit "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" from publishing the 7,000-page, top-secret Pentagon Papers, which traced US involvement in Vietnam.

Focuses on the tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics. Looking at films from "Birth of a Nation" to "Forrest Gump", this book explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to various issues.

As cultural revolutionary, media celebrity, Yippie, lost soul, and tragic suicide, Abbie Hoffman embodied the contradictions of his era. This title draws on the author's own relationship with Hoffman; many interviews with friends, family members, and former comrades; and, scrutiny of FBI files, court records, and public documents.

This study of Benjamin Franklin aims to examine his darker side, revealing his anger, his hostile relationships and great disappointments. It details his adversaries in politics and the sorrow that his son brought him by remaining loyal to Britain.

A selection of the author's critical essays on music, which includes an analysis of Beethoven's obsession with the key of C minor, an account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the Elizabethan Catholic minority, and papers on the operas "Don Giovanni", "The Magic Flute" and "Tristan and Isolde".

Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. This book examines how he interpreted notions of mechanical reproduction in order to redefine the meaning and value of the art object, the artist, and artistic production.

In 1994, 4000 pages of legally-damaging, tobacco industry internal documents were delivered anonymously to the University of California. Based on these, this work contends that the tobacco industry has attempted to deny its own findings that using tobacco products causes death and disease.

By focusing on three upsurges of interest in evolutionary ethics this book describes a century-old philosophical hope: that universal ethical and social imperatives are built into human nature and can be discovered through knowledge of evolutionary theory.

The 15 hagiographies of holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the 4th to 7th centuries AD, they are translated from Syriac into accessible prose.

The American Revolution gave birth not just to a new nation, but to a new landscape. This title provides a perspective from which to understand not only our landscape but also the way we steward our environment. It describes the transformation of America from wilderness into an agrarian and suburban landscape as the nation expanded westward.

A study of Japan's acquisition of Korea. It shows how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s.

This work examines cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule, exploring Russia's role as a colonial power and the politics of Islamic reform movements. It describes how the Jadids sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture by adapting it to the modern state.

California is the nation's great vineyard, supplying grapes for most of the wine produced in the United States. The state is home to more than 700 wineries, and California's premier wines are recognized throughout the world. This book traces the Golden State's wine industry from its mission period and Gold Rush origins onwards.

One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. This book demonstrates how Californians and Australians shared plants, insects, technology, and dreams, creating a system of environmental exchange that transcended national and natural boundaries.

A collection of essays that reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. It talks about anti-Semitism in the context of the 1930s and the ideologies that drove the Nazi regime.

Tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write "Proposition 209" in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next generation.

Spanning the 100-day Persian Gulf War and a small California town's girls' basketball season, this novel is the story of Hedy Gallagher Castle, a woman who has reached a crossroads in her life. A straddler by nature, Hedy finds herself doing a balancing act between her daughter, father and husband.

Explores the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. This title offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I.

In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. This book examines the history of the relationship between the Los Angeles Police Department and the Mexican American community from the turn of the century to the era of the Zoot Suit Riots.

Chronicles the history of Mexican community in Los Angeles. This book unravels the story of Mexican immigration to Los Angeles during the early decades of the twentieth century and shows how Mexican immigrants re-created their lives and their communities.

After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality. This book focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implications for the development of a 'civil society'.