Wild Men(1st Edition) Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America by DouglasCazauxSackman Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517853-1, ISBN: 0-19-517853-X
"In late August of 1911, from deep within the shadows of a remote canyon in northern California, an Indian of the Yahi people, long-believed to have disappeared, suddenly showed himself. A fugitive, he had hidden for decades from the lethal gaze of white intruders, keeping fires small and wiping the earth clean of his footprints. The sheriff took him into custody, and, having no better place for him, put him in the cell reserved for tho ..."
"A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history. * Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history * Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends and encourages new directions for the field * Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians, from the founder ..."
Orange Empire(1st Edition) California and the Fruits of Eden by DouglasCazauxSackman Paperback, 401 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25167-0, ISBN: 0-520-25167-9
"This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export―the orange. From the 1870s onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together fo ..."
"A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history. Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends and encourages new directions for the field Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians, from the founders of ..."
Wild Men(1st Edition) Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America (New Narratives in American History) by DouglasCazauxSackman Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517852-4, ISBN: 0-19-517852-1
"When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink--one was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing ..."
Orange Empire(1st Edition) California and the Fruits of Eden by DouglasCazauxSackman Hardcover, 401 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23886-2, ISBN: 0-520-23886-9
"This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export—the orange. From the 1870s onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together fo ..."
Factories in the Field(1st Edition) The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California by Carey Mcwilliams, DouglasCazauxSackman Paperback, 366 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22413-1, ISBN: 0-520-22413-2
"This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field―together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck―dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the exp ..."
Orange Empire California and the Fruits of Eden by DouglasCazauxSackman Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1-282-36030-3, ISBN: 1-282-36030-2
Wild Men Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America by DouglasCazauxSackman 384 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-974250-9, ISBN: 0-19-974250-2
"Pacific Press, 1879), 104; Bret Harte, editorial, Overland Monthly 1 (1868): 99–
100, quoted in Tracy Storer and Lloyd Tevis Jr., California Grizzly (1955; Berkeley
: University of California Press, 1996), 281; Allan Schoenherr, A Natural History of
..."
Wild Men Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America by DouglasCazauxSackman 384 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-974587-6, ISBN: 0-19-974587-0
"Afterword. 1. William Cronon, “A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative,”
Journal ofAmerican History 78 (March 1992): 1347. For the perspective of stories
being imposed on the landscape by humans to create “place,” see Wallace
Stegner, “The Sense of Place,” in Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade
Springs: Living and Writing in the West (New York: Random House, 1992), 199–
206. For the idea that stories come out of the ..."
Orange Empire California and the Fruits of Eden by DouglasCazauxSackman 401 Pages, Published 2005 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94089-5, ISBN: 0-520-94089-X
"“You have nothing to fear,” he said. ... As Helen Keller observed, “Only a wise
child can understand the language of flowers and trees... . When plants ... Like
his Bay Area friends John Muir and Jack London, Burbank believed that all of
nature was alive. ... 12 However much skepticism such statements aroused, no
one could deny that Burbank's love—or whatever he wanted to call it—worked
wonders."
"Inscribed Bodies In 1995 Richard White broadened environmental history's focus
on bodies at work in factories to include as well working bodies in a much wider
array of labor settings. In his seminal article “ 'Are You an Environmentalist or Do
You Work for a Living?' (1995a), as well as in his book The Organic Machine (
1995b), White laments that environmental historians have too often equated
bodily work with the destruction of th ..."