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City of Wood

San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry

de James Michael Buckley ...

2025 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers2025 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award2025 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes2026 Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library2025 Honorable Mention, PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers (AAP)California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the ... ... Leer más

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2025 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers2025 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award2025 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes2026 Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library2025 Honorable Mention, PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers (AAP)California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the ...
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City of Wood

San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry

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California's 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the "instant city" of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state's vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael ... Leer más

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California's 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the "instant city" of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state's vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael
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Silent Spring Revolution

John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

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New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of the modern environmental movement during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico ... Leer más

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Nature's Metropolis

Chicago and the Great West

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A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe ... Leer más

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A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
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Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods

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This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet the history of trees in America is no less remarkable than the history of the United States itself—from the majestic white pines of New England, ... Leer más

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Nature's Role in American History

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A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... Leer más

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Series Libro 17 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
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King Sequoia

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A naturist and historian for the National Parks Service offers a lively history of the giant sequoias of California and the love of nature they inspired.Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of some of the world's largest and oldest trees in a narrative that travels deep into the Sierra Nevada mountains, across the American West, and all the way to New Zealand. Along the way, ... Leer más

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