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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 1989.

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 1989.

The history of the California and Alaska gold rushes is well known. Less well known is the nature of the mining industry in the American West, Mexico, and Central America in the following decades. This book follows the lives of Irving Herr and his wife Luella Winship to provide a picture of the world of mining in the early twentieth century. Irving was a mining engineer whose jobs between 1901 and 1912 took him to California, Nevada, Costa Ric...

Drawing on a number of disciplines, nine scholars examine the major issues addressed by rural history.

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Can you imagine spending twelve years of your life behind the walls of the world's largest walled maximum security prison? What if you were sent there for a crime you didn't commit? This is just one of the many unbelievable events of Richard Herr's life. He turned 21 on a Chinese junk, with fellow Marines preparing to execute some of the early reconnaissance for the conflict that eventually became the Vietnam War. Upon his discharge from the M...

Can you imagine spending twelve years of your life behind the walls of the world's largest walled maximum security prison? What if you were sent there for a crime you didn't commit? This is just one of the many unbelievable events of Richard Herr's life. He turned 21 on a Chinese junk, with fellow Marines preparing to execute some of the early reconnaissance for the conflict that eventually became the Vietnam War. Upon his discharge from the M...

Belly up to a bar next to a Spacer in most any location in the galaxy, and you can expect to be plunged into a brawl, or worse. That's how Spacers are. However, if that bar happened to be located in the StarBoard Café, you might find yourself the involuntary audience to a story. The Café holds a yearly storytelling contest, and Spacers love to tell stories. The individual tales in the contest might reveal that strange happenings are stirring t...

Harry Chatham's company puts on corporate presentations, otherwise known as Dog & Pony shows*. When he hires a Traffic Manager to make his work easier, he finds the opposite happening. His new employee displays extraordinary skills and perceptions that drag Harry into realms he didn't know existed. Harry is thrust into plots to take over both this world and another that was previously invisible to him. His life becomes mixed up with CIA plots,...

Joey meets up with Mars who hails from the planet Fred. It's the same planet we call Mars. He is joined up by his friends and his grandmother to help Mars find an identity, and to also thwart some strip mining and an invasion from Fred. The book deals with coming of age, finding one's identity, female rights, and the distinct differences between the generations of Joey's family.

The first part of the book is an able survey of 'the Enlightenment' in eighteenth-century Spain. The second part, on 'the Revolution, ' is something more.Originally published in 1958.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while p...

This memoir details the experiences of an American family caught in Revolutionary Mexico. The book contains information about the Revolution, life as a foreign national in Mexico, the silver mining industry, and social and cultural aspects of Revolutionar

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