The winner of the first CHS Book Award reimagines what a history book can be, and it tells a story all California needs to hear in order to understand itself. Beneath Los Angeles's North Spring Street bridge, a deteriorated concrete landscape was used for years as a homeless encampment and a buffer zone between gang territories. Between 2006 and 2013, artist Lauren Bon and her Metabolic Studio team transformed the underpass into a vibrantly ...
A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a “history factory,” he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents; hired scribes to copy material in private hands; employed interviewers to capture the memories of early Spanish and ...
The latest CHS Book Award winner examines California's history through the prism of twelve elections that forever changed the state. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, including new interviews conducted by the authors, each chapter explores one election (Leland Stanford's gubernatorial race, the initiative that mandated term limits, and the Los Angeles Aqueduct Bond Measure, to name a few), revealing the forces behind the choice ...
Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award! The latest title from the author of <i>A History of Wine in America</i> recounts the beginnings of California's world renowned wine trade—a story set not in Napa but in the isolated pueblo now called Los Angeles. With incisive analysis and a touch of dry humor, <i>The City of Vines</i> chronicles winemaking in Los Angeles from its beginnings in th ...
Russland 1707: Das Leben der jungen Tatarin Schirin andert sich jah, als ihr Vater nach einem missgluckten Aufstand von den Russen gefangen genommen wird. Die Sieger fordern den Khan auf, ihnen einen Sohn als Geisel zu stellen. Doch der alteste seiner Sohne ist tot und der jungste zu klein. So wird Schirin in Mannerkleider gesteckt und unter dem Namen ihres toten Bruders ausgeliefert. Es beginnt eine harte Zeit, in der Schirin ihre Identitat ver ...
Die Pestarztin Sie lebt in einer dunklen Zeit. Sie ist ein Spielball des launischen Schicksals. Ein fesselnder Roman – prachtig und gefuhlvoll. Mainz 1348: Der schwarze Tod wutet in der Stadt, und eine junge Heilkundige nimmt den Kampf mit ihm auf: Lucia verfugt uber au?ergewohnliche medizinische Kenntnisse. Doch auf dem Hohepunkt der Epidemie verliert sie ihren wichtigsten Mitstreiter und den Mann, den sie liebt: den Pestarzt Clemens von Trei ...
The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that wreaks carnage today, as carbonization threatens our very climate. Powering Empire argues that we cannot promote worldwide decarbonization without first understanding the history of the globalization of carbon energy. How did this black rock come to have such long ...
As one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions.  It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis.  Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious and artistic currents that shaped Spain and Mexico across the 18th century. Further, Serra ...
