Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents

Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
Total Pages: 800
Release: 1913
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

The Ever-changing View

The Ever-changing View
Author: Anthony Godfrey
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2005
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

"United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region"

Official Congressional Directory

Official Congressional Directory
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Joint Committee on Printing
Total Pages: 1258
Release: 2012-01-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Contains biographies of Senators, members of Congress, and the Judiciary. Also includes committee assignments, maps of Congressional districts, a directory of officials of executive agencies, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, web addresses, and other information.

Factories in the Field

Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2000-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520925181

This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians

A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians
Author: Thomas Biolsi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2008-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1405182881

This Companion is comprised of 27 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic, as well as situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data into larger frameworks Explores anthropology’s contribution to knowledge, its historic and ongoing complicities with colonialism, and its political and ethical obligations toward the people 'studied'