The Pacific Historical Review

The Pacific Historical Review
Title The Pacific Historical Review PDF eBook
Author Anna Marie Hager
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 588
Release 1976
Genre History
ISBN 9780520030350

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We Are the Land

We Are the Land
Title We Are the Land PDF eBook
Author Damon B. Akins
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 377
Release 2021-04-20
Genre History
ISBN 0520976886

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“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.

Baseball's Power Shift

Baseball's Power Shift
Title Baseball's Power Shift PDF eBook
Author Krister Swanson
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 338
Release 2016-03
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0803288042

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From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players' desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. The labor consciousness of baseball players lagged behind that of workers in other industries, and the public was largely in the dark about labor practices in baseball. In the mid-1960s, star players Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale staged a joint holdout for multiyear contracts and much higher salaries. Their holdout quickly drew support from the public; for the first time, owners realized they could ill afford to alienate fans, their primary source of revenue. Baseball's Power Shift chronicles the growth and development of the union movement in Major League Baseball and the key role of the press and public opinion in the players' successes and failures in labor-management relations. Swanson focuses on the most turbulent years, 1966 to 1981, which saw the birth of the Major League Baseball Players Association as well as three strikes, two lockouts, Curt Flood's challenge to the reserve clause in the Supreme Court, and the emergence of full free agency. To defeat the owners, the players' union needed support from the press, and perhaps more importantly, the public. With the public on their side, the players ushered in a new era in professional sports when salaries skyrocketed and fans began to care as much about the business dealings of their favorite team as they do about wins and losses. Swanson shows how fans and the media became key players in baseball's labor wars and paved the way for the explosive growth in the American sports economy.

We Could Not Fail

We Could Not Fail
Title We Could Not Fail PDF eBook
Author Richard Paul
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 313
Release 2015-05-01
Genre History
ISBN 0292772491

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The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty. We Could Not Fail tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of how shooting for the stars helped to overcome segregation on earth. Richard Paul and Steven Moss profile ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. They recount how these technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate surmounted barriers to move, in some cases literally, from the cotton fields to the launching pad. The authors vividly describe what it was like to be the sole African American in a NASA work group and how these brave and determined men also helped to transform Southern society by integrating colleges, patenting new inventions, holding elective office, and reviving and governing defunct towns. Adding new names to the roster of civil rights heroes and a new chapter to the story of space exploration, We Could Not Fail demonstrates how African Americans broke the color barrier by competing successfully at the highest level of American intellectual and technological achievement.

Decolonisation and the Pacific

Decolonisation and the Pacific
Title Decolonisation and the Pacific PDF eBook
Author Tracey Banivanua Mar
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 279
Release 2016-04-26
Genre History
ISBN 110703759X

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This book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.

Pacific Historical Review

Pacific Historical Review
Title Pacific Historical Review PDF eBook
Author
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Release 1971
Genre United States
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Empire and the Making of Native Title

Empire and the Making of Native Title
Title Empire and the Making of Native Title PDF eBook
Author Bain Attwood
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 457
Release 2020-07-16
Genre History
ISBN 1108478298

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This book provides a strikingly original explanation of the Britain's treatment of sovereignty and native title in its Australasian colonies.