[PDF] Fresnos Cultural History eBook

Author : Stephen H. Provost
Publisher : Craven Street Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fresno (Calif.)
ISBN : 9781610352505

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If you grew up in Fresno, California, there are people and places you will never forget: Al Radka. Christmas Tree Lane. Fulton Street--before it was the Fulton Mall. Harpain's Dairy. The Sunnyside Drive-In. Dean and Don and The Breakfast Club. Gottschalks. The Tower District ... and so many more parts of Old Fresno, some still with us and some long forgotten. "Fresno Growing Up: A City Comes of Age 1945-1985" is the first book to tell the story of Fresno during the times we remember, when the city was growing up fast and so were we. "Fresno Growing Up" documents the Fresno experience and Fresno popular culture during its dramatic postwar period, when the city abruptly shifted from a small town to the fastest growing city in the United States. Surveying the businesses, restaurants, movie houses, malls, personalities, sports, bands, and fads that made Fresno fun from the forties to the eighties, "Fresno Growing Up" is a nostalgic look back at both the city's adolescence and our own.

Author : John Reynolds
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0738596205

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Fresno was founded in 1872 in the middle of the vast, fertile San Joaquin Valley and quickly became the financial and social center of California. From the infinite amount of agricultural products to lumber, oil, water, and electrical power, the city thrived upon the multitude of natural resources that were abundantly available in the area. As the county seat, it was the political and cultural center of central California. Shown in this volume are postcards of the city in its heyday.

Author : Andrew Fiala
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1538160498

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Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but what do we do when that drama becomes a reality all around us? For a country founded as an escape from British tyranny, the United States seems to have devolved into a land where tyrants rise to power, sycophants blindly follow, and the entire nation suffers. As ancient Greek philosophers warned us, chaotic tragedy unfolds in the absence of reason, and the only cure is a return to wisdom and virtue. America’s founding fathers knew this lesson all too well and dreamed of an enlightened citizenry guided by better-than-ideological dictators. Using contemporary events to illuminate universal human weaknesses, Andrew Fiala charts the perennial history of tyrannical takeovers and the masses who support them and ultimately suffer under their rule. Ultimately, Fiala also points to a solution. Knowing the cyclical nature of tyranny, we can build safeguards against our worst inclinations and keep alive the freedoms our founding fathers envisioned for this nation.

Author : Brad A. Jones
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501754025

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In Resisting Independence, Brad A. Jones maps the loyal British Atlantic's reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port cities—New York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, Scotland—Jones argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. This compelling account reimagines Loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the thirteen American colonies. Jones reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion. Loyal Britons faced a daunting task—to refute an American Patriot cause that sought to dismantle their nation's claim to a free and prosperous Protestant empire. For the inhabitants of these four cities, rejecting American independence thus required a rethinking of the beliefs and ideals that framed their loyalty to the Crown and previously drew together Britain's vast Atlantic empire. Resisting Independence describes the formation and spread of this new transatlantic ideology of Loyalism. Loyal subjects in North America and across the Atlantic viewed the American Revolution as a dangerous and violent social rebellion and emerged from twenty years of conflict more devoted to a balanced, representative British monarchy and, crucially, more determined to defend their rights as British subjects. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, as their former countrymen struggled to build a new nation, these loyal Britons remained convinced of the strength and resilience of their nation and empire and their place within it.

Author : Marguerite Zorach
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780874130355

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This volume features 30 art-related travel articles by the American modern artist, Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1887-1968). The accompanying essay examines her life in Paris, the people she met, and the art she was exposed to.