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Innovative attention to biographies, to cartoons, and to popular
media The volume effectively covers broad analytical and
geographical ground over a long historical period Editors and
contributors are well respected and important leaders in the field
Innovative attention to biographies, to cartoons, and to popular
media The volume effectively covers broad analytical and
geographical ground over a long historical period Editors and
contributors are well respected and important leaders in the field
In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the
anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and
social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print
network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted
anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational
solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to
Barcelona. Christopher J. Castaneda and Montse Feu edit a
collection that examines many facets of Spanish-language anarchist
history. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the essays
investigate anarchist print culture's transatlantic origins;
Latina/o labor-oriented anarchism in the United States; the
anarchist print presence in locales like Mexico's borderlands and
Steubenville, Ohio; the history of essential publications and the
individuals behind them; and the circulation of anarchist writing
from the Spanish-American War to the twenty-first
century.Contributors: Jon Bekken, Christopher Castaneda, Jesse
Cohn, Sergio Sanchez Collantes, Maria Jose Dominguez, Antonio
Herreria Fernandez, Montse Feu, Sonia Hernandez, Jorell A.
Melendez-Badillo, Javier Navarro Navarro, Michel Otayek, Mario
Martin Revellado, Susana Sueiro Seoane, Kirwin R. Shaffer,
Alejandro de la Torre, and David Watson
Often referred to as "the Big Tomato," Sacramento is a city whose
makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based
sobriquet implies. In "River City and Valley Life, " seventeen
contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and
built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs,
residents, politics, and economics throughout its history.
The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when
Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant
into New Helvetia (or "New Switzerland"). It was at Sutter's
sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered,
leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight,
Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850.
Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento
Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the
surrounding region. Combined with the area's warm and sunny
climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for
agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and
cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to
the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the
downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when
local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869
it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first
transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub
and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state
capital and seat of government.
In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the
federal government's major investment in the construction and
operation of three military bases and other regional public works
projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of
highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the
Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut
down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the
area, while "Old Sacramento" revitalizes the original downtown as
it celebrates Sacramento's pioneering past.
This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case
study of urban and suburban development in California and the
American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its
landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards,
and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces
created and expanded, Sacramento's identity continues to evolve. As
it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and
government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region
deeply rooted in its natural environment.
Herman and George R. Brown, formidable figures in the construction
industry and Texas politics, made a unique business team. Practical
and decisive Herman and university-trained, soft-spoken George, a
natural salesperson, combined their individual strengths, strong
work ethic, and ambition to develop Brown & Root, one of
America's preeminent construction companies. Builders serves both
as a history of their lives and as an examination of business life
in mid-twentieth-century America. In addition to examining the
brothers' business accomplishments, the authors address the Browns'
philanthropic work, political influence, antiunionism, and longtime
relationship with Lyndon Baines Johnson.
In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the
anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and
social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print
network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted
anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational
solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to
Barcelona. Christopher J. Castaneda and Montse Feu edit a
collection that examines many facets of Spanish-language anarchist
history. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the essays
investigate anarchist print culture's transatlantic origins;
Latina/o labor-oriented anarchism in the United States; the
anarchist print presence in locales like Mexico's borderlands and
Steubenville, Ohio; the history of essential publications and the
individuals behind them; and the circulation of anarchist writing
from the Spanish-American War to the twenty-first
century.Contributors: Jon Bekken, Christopher Castaneda, Jesse
Cohn, Sergio Sanchez Collantes, Maria Jose Dominguez, Antonio
Herreria Fernandez, Montse Feu, Sonia Hernandez, Jorell A.
Melendez-Badillo, Javier Navarro Navarro, Michel Otayek, Mario
Martin Revellado, Susana Sueiro Seoane, Kirwin R. Shaffer,
Alejandro de la Torre, and David Watson
The study of Panhandle Eastern's history shows the relationship
between regulatory policy and the modern corporation in the
twentieth century from a unique perspective, for it extends over
three eras in the growth of its industry and the US political
economy. The first era, in which the interstate pipeline industry
began, was characterised by minimal regulation or antitrust
activity. Then, New Deal regulatory reforms subjected the firms to
single industry regulation, but pipelines bought and sold gas and
enjoyed a long period of expansion in spite of the increasingly
complex regulations. Finally, the third era was characterised by
regulatory failure, energy crises, regulatory change, and industry
reorganisation as regulators took the traditional merchant
function, that of buying and selling gas, from pipelines and
transformed them into open access contract carriers.
The study of Panhandle Eastern's history shows the relationship
between regulatory policy and the modern corporation in the
twentieth century from a unique perspective, for it extends over
three eras in the growth of its industry and the US political
economy. The first era, in which the interstate pipeline industry
began, was characterised by minimal regulation or antitrust
activity. Then, New Deal regulatory reforms subjected the firms to
single industry regulation, but pipelines bought and sold gas and
enjoyed a long period of expansion in spite of the increasingly
complex regulations. Finally, the third era was characterised by
regulatory failure, energy crises, regulatory change, and industry
reorganisation as regulators took the traditional merchant
function, that of buying and selling gas, from pipelines and
transformed them into open access contract carriers.
New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a
point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to
anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique
and dynamic terrain for anarchist activity. For 150 years, Gotham's
cosmopolitan setting created a unique interplay between anarchism's
human actors and an urban space that invites constant reinvention.
Tom Goyens gathers essays that demonstrate anarchism's endurance as
a political and cultural ideology and movement in New York from the
1870s to 2011. The authors cover the gamut of anarchy's emergence
in and connection to the city. Some offer important new insights on
German, Yiddish, Italian, and Spanish-speaking anarchists. Others
explore anarchism's influence on religion, politics, and the visual
and performing arts. A concluding essay looks at Occupy Wall
Street's roots in New York City's anarchist tradition.
Contributors: Allan Antliff, Marcella Bencivenni, Caitlin Casey,
Christopher J. Castaneda, Andrew Cornell, Heather Gautney, Tom
Goyens, Anne Klejment, Alan W. Moore, Erin Wallace, and Kenyon
Zimmer.
New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a
point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to
anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique
and dynamic terrain for anarchist activity. For 150 years, Gotham's
cosmopolitan setting created a unique interplay between anarchism's
human actors and an urban space that invites constant reinvention.
Tom Goyens gathers essays that demonstrate anarchism's endurance as
a political and cultural ideology and movement in New York from the
1870s to 2011. The authors cover the gamut of anarchy's emergence
in and connection to the city. Some offer important new insights on
German, Yiddish, Italian, and Spanish-speaking anarchists. Others
explore anarchism's influence on religion, politics, and the visual
and performing arts. A concluding essay looks at Occupy Wall
Street's roots in New York City's anarchist tradition.
Contributors: Allan Antliff, Marcella Bencivenni, Caitlin Casey,
Christopher J. Castaneda, Andrew Cornell, Heather Gautney, Tom
Goyens, Anne Klejment, Alan W. Moore, Erin Wallace, and Kenyon
Zimmer.
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