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River City and Valley Life : An Environmental History of the Sacramento Region.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of the Urban Environment SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (418 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822979180
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: River City and Valley LifeDDC classification:
  • 304.2097945
LOC classification:
  • GE155
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Indomitable City and Its Environmental Context -- Part I: Boomtown Sacramento -- Chapter 1: John A. Sutter and the Indian Business -- Chapter 2: River City Sacramento's Gold Rush Birth and Transfiguration -- Chapter 3: "We Must Give the World Confidence in the Stability and Permanence of the Place" : Planning Sacremento's Townsite, 1853 - 1870 -- Chapter 4: Railroads and the Urban Environment -- Part II: Valley Reclamation -- Chapter 5: The Perils of Agriculture in Sacramento's Untamed Hinterland -- Chapter 6: Rivers of Gold, Valley of Conquest -- Chapter 7: Forging Transcontinental Alliances -- Chapter 8: Both "Country Town" and "Bustling Metropolis" -- Part III: Government Town -- Chapter 9: Unseen Investment: New Deal Sacramento -- Chapter 10: The Legacy of War: Sacramento's Military Bases -- Chapter 11: Recalling Rancho Seco: Voicing a Nuclear past -- Part IV: Reclaiming the Past -- Chapter 12: Dreams, Realizations, and Nightmares: The American River Parkways Tumultuous Life, 1915-2011 -- Chapter 13: Thunder over the Valley: Environmental Politics and Indian Gaming in California -- Chapter 14 The Invention of Old Sacramento: A Past for the Future -- Epilogue: Sacramento, Before and After the Gold Rush -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: Often referred to as "the Big Tomato," Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, the contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. This environmental history provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Indomitable City and Its Environmental Context -- Part I: Boomtown Sacramento -- Chapter 1: John A. Sutter and the Indian Business -- Chapter 2: River City Sacramento's Gold Rush Birth and Transfiguration -- Chapter 3: "We Must Give the World Confidence in the Stability and Permanence of the Place" : Planning Sacremento's Townsite, 1853 - 1870 -- Chapter 4: Railroads and the Urban Environment -- Part II: Valley Reclamation -- Chapter 5: The Perils of Agriculture in Sacramento's Untamed Hinterland -- Chapter 6: Rivers of Gold, Valley of Conquest -- Chapter 7: Forging Transcontinental Alliances -- Chapter 8: Both "Country Town" and "Bustling Metropolis" -- Part III: Government Town -- Chapter 9: Unseen Investment: New Deal Sacramento -- Chapter 10: The Legacy of War: Sacramento's Military Bases -- Chapter 11: Recalling Rancho Seco: Voicing a Nuclear past -- Part IV: Reclaiming the Past -- Chapter 12: Dreams, Realizations, and Nightmares: The American River Parkways Tumultuous Life, 1915-2011 -- Chapter 13: Thunder over the Valley: Environmental Politics and Indian Gaming in California -- Chapter 14 The Invention of Old Sacramento: A Past for the Future -- Epilogue: Sacramento, Before and After the Gold Rush -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Often referred to as "the Big Tomato," Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, the contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. This environmental history provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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