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Author : David P. Gardner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520241835
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Author : Francisco Palóu
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 1926
Category : California
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Study of the effect of contact with "white" society on a northwest coast Indian band.
Author : Clark Kerr
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : José Mariá Amador
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574411918
In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don Jose Maria Amador, a former Forty-Niner during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous populations. He speaks of political events of Mexican California and the widespread confiscation of the Californios' goods, livestock, and properties when the United States took control. A friend from Mission Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Asisara, also describes the harsh life and mistreatment the Indians faced from the priests. Both the Amador and Asisara narratives were used as sources in Bancroft's writing but never published themselves. Gregorio Mora-Torres has now rescued them from obscurity and presents their voices in English translation (with annotations) and in the original Spanish on facing pages. This bilingual edition will be of great interest to historians of the West, California, and Mexican American studies.
Author : Richard Huelsenbeck
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 1991-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520073708
Huelsenbeck’s memoirs bring to life the concerns—intellectual, artistic, and political—of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.
Author : Alton A. Adams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520251318
"Adams's memoirs, here edited and placed in historical context by Mark Clague, with a foreword by Samuel Floyd, Jr., reveal an inspired cultural activist who believed that music could change the world, mitigate racism, and help bring lasting prosperity to his island home."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1994-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520088887
"If Kafka had been a feminist, his prisoner might have had Nawal el Sa'adawi's feistiness, maybe, like her, he would have hoed a prison garden, led veiled and unveiled cellmates in rebellious calisthenics, strategized with a murderess to foil state illogic. This book gives me hope, even makes me laugh."—Cynthia Enloe, author of The Morning After
Author : Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 1996-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0299149749
Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451413977
This insightful work examines the variety of ways that collective memory, oral tradition, history, and history writing intersect. Integral to all this are the ways in which ancient Israel was shaped by the monarchy, the Babylonian exile, and the dispersions of Judeans and the ways in which Israel conceptualized and interacted with the divine-Yahweh as well as other deities.
Author : JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2013-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520957296
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. Reissued nearly twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Dorothy Ko, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and an extraordinary example of autobiography in the premodern era.