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Author: Victor Davis Hanson
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the 1980s, 2,000 family farms went out of business every week. Fields Without Dreams tells Hanson's passionate, angry, loving, and lyrical story. A fifth-generation California vine and fruit grower, Hanson and his family faced an overwhelming personal crisis when the great "raisin boom" of the 1970s was followed by the great "raisin crash" of the 1980s.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is part history, part political analysis and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in California over the last quarter century.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998-10-20
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0520921755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a comprehensive modern study of the relationship between agriculture and warfare in the Greek world. In this completely revised edition of Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson provides a systematic review of Greek agriculture and warfare and describes the relationship between these two important aspects of life in ancient communities. With careful attention to agronomic as well as military details, this well-written, thoroughly researched study reveals the remarkable resilience of those farmland communities. In the past, scholars have assumed that the agricultural infrastructure of ancient society was often ruined by attack, as, for example, Athens was relegated to poverty in the aftermath of the Persian and later Peloponnesian invasions. Hanson's study shows, however, that in reality attacks on agriculture rarely resulted in famines or permanent agrarian depression. Trees and vines are hard to destroy, and grainfields are only briefly vulnerable to torching. In addition, ancient armies were rather inefficient systematic ravagers and instead used other tactics, such as occupying their enemies' farms to incite infantry battle. Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece suggests that for all ancient societies, rural depression and desolation came about from more subtle phenomena—taxes, changes in political and social structure, and new cultural values—rather than from destructive warfare.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-12-22
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780520209350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Georgiana Fields
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-09-14
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781726036474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A mysterious stranger offers Rose Kelly the opportunity to restore his English home and fulfill a career dream. With nothing to lose, Rose accepts Vaughn Madoc's offer and accompanies him to England. While touring his house, Rose is catapulted back to 1900 Victorian England. Vaughn Madoc is Dhampir, the race that originated the vampire legend. Working with Scotland Yard to track down a killer plaguing London in the wake of Jack the Ripper, his life has all the complications he can handle. The strangely dressed woman appearing in his library is his true mate, the one he has waited centuries to meet. Can Vaughn protect Rose from a vicious killer? Can a 21st-century woman survive a turn-of-the-century killer? How would this change the future?
Author: Julie Guthman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-08-04
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0520937732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refuting popular portrayals of organic agriculture as a small-scale family farm endeavor in opposition to "industrial" agriculture, Guthman explains how organic farming has replicated what it set out to oppose.
Author: Matthew T. Dickerson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008-12-19
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0813173191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The remarkable breadth of C. S. Lewis's (1898–1963) work is nearly as legendary as the fantastical tales he so inventively crafted. A variety of themes emerge in his literary output, which spans the genres of nonfiction, fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, but much of the scholarship examining his work focuses on religion or philosophy. Overshadowed are Lewis's views on nature and his concern for environmental stewardship, which are present in most of his work. In Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis, authors Matthew Dickerson and David O'Hara illuminate this important yet overlooked aspect of the author's visionary work. Dickerson and O'Hara go beyond traditional theological discussions of Lewis's writing to investigate themes of sustainability, stewardship of natural resources, and humanity's relationship to wilderness. The authors examine the environmental and ecological underpinnings of Lewis's work by exploring his best-known works of fantasy, including the seven books of the Chronicles of Narnia and the three novels collectively referred to as the Space Trilogy. Taken together, these works reveal Lewis's enduring environmental concerns, and Dickerson and O'Hara offer a new understanding of his pioneering style of fiction. An avid outdoorsman, Lewis deftly combined an active imagination with a deep appreciation for the natural world. Narnia and the Fields of Arbol, the first book-length work on the subject, explores the marriage of Lewis's environmental passion with his skill as a novelist and finds the author's legacy to have as much in common with the agrarian environmentalism of Wendell Berry as it does with the fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien. In an era of increasing concern about deforestation, climate change, and other environmental issues, Lewis's work remains as pertinent as ever. The widespread adaption of his work in film lends credence to the author's staying power as an influential voice in both fantastical fiction and environmental literature. With Narnia and the Fields of Arbol, Dickerson and O'Hara have written a timely work of scholarship that offers a fresh perspective on one of the most celebrated authors in literary history.
Author: Thomas R. Rourke
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780739101216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This distinctive and contemporary departure from hackneyed discussions of political theory introduces readers to a contemporary personalism rooted in the work of Bartolome de Las Casas and emerging again in the contributions of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin as well as the liberation theology of Gustavo Guiterrez and Jon Sobrino. Thomas R. Rourke and Rosita A. Chazarreta Rourke introduce readers to new sources of personalism by investigating and revising the intellectual history of this theory and its development.
Author: Michael L. Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.
Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780520227675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays written by a stellar cast of art historians and scholars looks closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. Illustrations.
