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Crossing California

2005-05-03 Fiction
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Release : 2005-05-03
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Book Rating : 297/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Crossing California by : Adam Langer

Download or read book Crossing California written by Adam Langer. This book was released on 2005-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing California is a cinematic and unforgettable look at the end of an era, the turning point when the idealism of the sixties gave way to the pragmatism of the eighties. California Avenue, in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, separates the upper-middle-class Jewish families on the west from the mostly middle-class Jewish households east of the divide. This funny and heartbreaking novel, which spans the Iran hostage crisis through the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as president, tells the story of three families and their teenage children living on either side of California. It follows their loves, heartaches, friendships, and losses during a memorable and defining moment of American history.

Crossing California

2005 Fiction
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Release : 2005
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 812/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Crossing California by : Adam Langer

Download or read book Crossing California written by Adam Langer. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows Jill Wasserman, Muley Wills, and other intelligent adolescents over two years in the late 1970s in Rogers Park, Illinois.

Pacific Crossing

2012-12-01 History
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Release : 2012-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 711/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Pacific Crossing by : Elizabeth Sinn

Download or read book Pacific Crossing written by Elizabeth Sinn. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by their long journeys back and forth. They in turn transformed Hong Kong, their main point of embarkation, from a struggling infant colony into a prosperous international port and the cultural center of a far-ranging Chinese diaspora. Making use of extensive research in archives around the world, Pacific Crossing charts the rise of Chinese Gold Mountain firms engaged in all kinds of transpacific trade, especially the lucrative export of prepared opium and other luxury goods. Challenging the traditional view that the migration was primarily a "coolie trade," Elizabeth Sinn uncovers leadership and agency among the many Chinese who made the crossing. In presenting Hong Kong as an "in-between place" of repeated journeys and continuous movement, Sinn also offers a fresh view of the British colony and a new paradigm for migration studies.

By Ox Team to California

1910 Overland journeys to the Pacific
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Release : 1910
Genre : Overland journeys to the Pacific
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Book Synopsis By Ox Team to California by : Lavinia Honeyman Porter

Download or read book By Ox Team to California written by Lavinia Honeyman Porter. This book was released on 1910. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sierra Crossing

1998-06-30 History
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Release : 1998-06-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Sierra Crossing by : Thomas Frederick Howard

Download or read book Sierra Crossing written by Thomas Frederick Howard. This book was released on 1998-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical era in California's history and development—the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada—is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast by a sea journey of at least six weeks. Although Californians expected to be connected with the other states by railroad soon after the 1849 Gold Rush, almost twenty years elapsed before this occurred. Meanwhile, various overland road ventures were launched by "emigrants," former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs whose alliances with one another were constantly shifting. The broad landscape of international affairs is also a part of Howard's story. Constructing roads and accumulating geographic information in the Sierra Nevada reflected Washington's interest in securing the vast western territories formerly held by others. In a remarkably short time the Sierra was transformed by vigorous exploration, road-promotion, and road-building. Ox-drawn wagons gave way to stagecoaches able to provide service as fine as any in the country. Howard effectively uses diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and official reports to recreate the human struggle and excitement involved in building the first trans-Sierra roads. Some of those roads have become modern highways used by thousands every day, while others are now only dim traces in the lonely backcountry.

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