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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 1956.
When August Fruge joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the largest, most distinguished university presses in the country, publishing more than 150 books annually in fields ranging from ancient history to contemporary film criticism, by notable authors from all over the world. August Fruge's memoir provides an exciting intellectual and topical story of the building of this great press. Along the way, it recalls battles for independence from the University administration, the Press's distinctive early style of book design, and many of the authors and staff who helped shape the Press in its formative years.
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 1956.
While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become
wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829,
his trip has enriched historians interested in early
nineteenth-century California. Because of a poor choice in goods to
trade he found it necessary to spend nearly two years on the Alta
and Baja California coasts before disposing of his cargo and
returning to France. What was bad luck for Duhaut-Cilly was good
luck for us, however, because he recorded his impressions of the
region's natural history and human populations in a diary. This
translation of Duhaut-Cilly's writing offers today's readers a rare
eyewitness account of the pastoral society that was Mexican
California, including the missions at the height of their power.
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