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Americans in a New Century: The 1900 Generation
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Richard A. Settersten and others
Published: 29 January 2021
... Depression McWilliams Carey middle class unemployment working class World War II Berkeley CA Berkeley Institute of Child Welfare California child development Elder Glen Europe life history studies longitudinal studies Macfarlane Jean Walker men San Francisco CA United States agency aging...
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Published: 20 December 2022
... Church. Featured in the chapter is the establishment of the Southern California Ecumenical Council (SCEC) which was one of the first and largest interfaith organizations in the United States. Interreligious Council of Southern California IRC SC McIntyre James Francis immigration Second Vatican Council...
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“Will We Still Be Feminist?”: Abortion Provision at the Chico Feminist Women’s Health Center
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Judith A. Houck
Published: 19 January 2024
...This chapter examines the founding and survival of the Chico Feminist Women’s Heath Center (Chico, California), one of a group of abortion clinics loosely associated with other Feminist Women’s Health Centers and committed to self-help practices. It explores how one group of women enacted feminist...
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The Bicycle Paths (Not) Taken
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Evan Friss
Published: 04 November 2015
...This chapter charts the development of bicycle paths. Special attention is given to the Coney Island Cycle Path, an early example that set a model for others, and the California Cycle-Way, an elevated cycle path that epitomized some of the bolder plans to create a cycling network. Finally...
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Impacts of Climate Change on Residential Electricity Consumption: Evidence from Billing Data
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Anin Aroonruengsawat and Maximilian Auffhammer
Published: 01 June 2011
...This chapter provides information critical for formulating policy in the energy sector and describes analysis of an unusually complete panel data set for California from 2003 to 2006. Supplementing these data with weather data and census information by zip code and controlling for household, month...
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Published: 04 May 2018
... with permission. Figure 6.2. The hydraulics in the trunk of a Cadillac lowrider, owned by a proud middle-aged Hispanic (June 16, 2016). Church of God Car Show, Covina, California. Author’s collection. Figure 6.3. A lowrider with a stylish paint and trim job. Used by permission of Robert Genat. In mid...
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Childhood on the Color Line in West Oakland: Day Nurseries during the Interwar Years
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Marta Gutman
Published: 19 September 2014
...The Sisters of the Holy Family and Northern Federation of California Colored Women’s Clubs answered the demand for childcare by repurposing houses in West Oakland. Welfare officials were wary of any intervention that made it easier for a mother to work outside her home, and white supremacists could...
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Published: 19 September 2014
...As the transcontinental railroad transformed Oakland, white Protestant women seceded from the Oakland Benevolent Society to incorporate the single-sex charity, the Ladies’ Relief Society of Oakland, California. Inspired by the relief effort in Chicago, after the 1871 fire, and their sense...
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California Cloning in French Algeria: Rooting Pieds Noirs and Uprooting Fellahs in the Orange Groves of the Mitidja
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Tiago Saraiva
Published: 25 January 2019
...This chapter deals with the social and political dimensions of citrus production in Algeria under French rule illuminating the role of cloning practices that originated in California in the making of colonial relations. It details what travels and what gets transformed when technoscientific things...
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Introduction
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Meredith Oda
Published: 27 December 2018
... Chinatown Takahashi Tomoye and Henri Takahashi Trading Company Topaz UT University of California Berkeley Chinese Americans Japanesetown Richmond district San Francisco Redevelopment Agency urban redevelopment in the Western Addition anti Japanese movement Christopher George Gateway...
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Pictographic Kinships: Simon Ortiz’s Spiral Lands and Jaime de Angulo’s Old Time Stories
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Edgar Garcia
Published: 23 January 2020
... California de Angulo Jaime evolutionism cultural Hegel G W F Kroeber Alfred Leeds Hurwitz Wendy race racism Sapir Edward Stocking George W Jr Brightman Robert Clifford James dialectic Geertz Clifford Marcus George writing cultures Achumawi assemblage Benson William Ralganal collage de...
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Published: 01 June 2009
... as an act of aesthetic provocation and a work of imagination and it made no concession to the standards of the digital humanities. The project was sponsored by the Digital Cultures Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ivanhoe design now slider Subjective Meteorology Temporal Modeling...
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Conclusion and a Look Forward From 1940
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John L. Neufeld
Published: 08 November 2016
... been proposed by Giant Power. In this structure, generation (only) was to be done by unregulated competing firms selling to a transmission authority (ISO or RTO). The new structure was on the way to becoming accepted in all states until a crisis in California in 2000-2001 froze further adoptions...
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Published: 15 June 2005
...Few American physics departments experienced the pains of transition to the postwar political scene more abruptly, or more publicly, than the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Geoffrey Chew produced an unusual reading of Feynman diagrams during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He...
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Published: 15 July 2009
...This book surveys Thom Gunn's career from his youth in 1930s Britain to his final years in California, from his earliest publications to his later unpublished notebooks, bringing together some of the most important poet-critics from both sides of the Atlantic to assess his oeuvre. It traces how...
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Published: 20 November 2014
... pop system of genres and formats, just as adults experimented with new middle class notions of the good life mythically located in California, A&M’s home. MOR in the 1960s was Alpert’s fictional Tijuana Brass, selling sexy exotica with Whipped Cream and Other Delights . AC emerged...
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The Possessions of the Spanish Crown
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Mirela Altic
Published: 16 June 2022
... by geopolitical changes upon Treaty of Quillin (1641), Treaty of Madrid (1750), Guaraní War (1753–56), Treaty of El Pardo (1761) Treaty of Paris (1763), but also by numerous local events and economic interests. Thus, Jesuit mapping of Sonora, Sinaloa, Baja California, Moxos (Peru), Paraguay, Chile, New Granada...
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The Evolution of Conflicting Law in California and Perhaps Beyond
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Jennifer Ann Drobac
Published: 02 February 2016
...This chapter consolidates the information from prior chapters to examine the evolution of criminal and civil laws in California cases and how those laws often conflict in their treatment of adolescent “consent.” By examining the Starbucks and Donaldson Doe cases...
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The Several Hundred GeV Accelerator, 1959–1963
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Lillian Hoddeson and others
Published: 15 December 2008
... this period. Robert R. Wilson of Cornell University took the initiative to organize an informal meeting at the 1960 Rochester Conference to discuss the new “ultra-high-energy” accelerators. This chapter discusses the proposals from the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA), the California...
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The Youngest Land: California, 1853–1906
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Deborah R. Coen
Published: 10 December 2012
...This chapter discusses the history of Californian seismology in the nineteenth century. It analyzes the role that catastrophic land movements had played in the formation of California’s high mountains, describes the attempts to catalog California’s earthquakes, and discusses the formation...