... of the villages. The surviving village of San Luis has kept its sense of community alive despite environmental losses that brought an end to agriculture and severely limited the possibilities for raising livestock. San Luis’s institutions of agriculture once provided its unique connection to place. The community...

...Geoff Burrows Abstract The Great Depression in Puerto Rico was marked by interconnected infrastructural, environmental, and socioeconomic crises caused by the global economic contraction and two devastating natural disasters, the San Felipe and San Ciprián hurricanes of 1928 and 1932. After 1935...

... in California and Australia (Melbourne, Aust.: Macmillan & Co., 1928), 43. 2 Glenn S. Dumke, The Boom of the Eighties in Southern California (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1944), 106, 6, 70, 77, 104, 241-42; Douglas C. Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden (Berkeley...

.... At the same time, the book s spotlight on the role played by the silent majority will enrich the debates of the next generation. Pamela Radcliff University of California San Diego Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899 1940. By Cesar Ayala and Laird Bergad. Cambridge: Cambridge...

... a comprehensive narrative of the Native history of California by forgoing the traditional colonial pomp and re-centering the perseverance of Indigenous people who remain active on the land that is California. Blanca Drapeau Interpretive Ranger, San Dieguito River Park Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal...

..., these four Exchange Contractors helped determine the structure of the CVP, requiring it to pump water down from Shasta to compensate for San Joaquin water blocked by the Friant Dam. The Exchange Contractors still have first priority in water deliveries today, showing how the dead hand of Henry Miller...

... a free lunch, however, Poppendieck s central argument is convincing that changing school food could help transform the food system as a whole. Jeff Charles California State University San Marcos The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach. By Leon Neel with Paul S...

... Spanish New Mexicans participated in it, and how it related to the Pueblo population. It is a welcome book for serious scholars of early New Mexico history, if not for students or a general audience. Jesu´ s F. de la Teja Texas State University San Marcos Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter...

... with Grossinger as our guide, we learn that those areas that have been transformed through development can be reclaimed for their ecosystem services given informed planning and decision-making. The ecosystem maintains surprising resilience. Greig Guthey California State University San Marcos Time s Shadow...

... it pump water down from Shasta to compensate for San Joaquin water blocked by the Friant Dam. The Exchange Contractors still have first priority in water deliveries today, showing how the dead hand of Henry Miller continues to shape California waterflows (66). Furthermore, because Miller and Lux claimed...