Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream 1496225503, 9781496225504

Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape 9780520967540

Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeve

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The California Gold Rush: The History and Legacy of the Forty-Niners and America’s Golden Dream

*Includes pictures. *Includes primary accounts of the gold rush. *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further read

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Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California 9780812209587

This sophisticated history of Compton shows how increasing poverty, violence, and public education controversies made an

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The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education 9780520966208

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing

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Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century 9781503619425

What accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Wh

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California in a Time of Excellence: School Reform at the Crossroads of the American Dream 1438424930, 9781438424934, 9781441607805

Follows California's efforts at reforming the public school system from 1983 to the present.

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The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator 9781529303261

'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart

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A Dubious Expediency 9781641771337, 2020044108, 9781641771320

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Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA 9781479868766

The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In 1982, the Supreme

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California Dream 04 - Carrie Soto is back 9789026361715

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