River City and valley life (Record no. 34499)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780822979180 |
| International Standard Book Number | 0822979187 |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780822962502 (paper) |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 0822962500 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MdBmJHUP |
| Transcribing agency | MdBmJHUP |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | GE155.C2 |
| Item number | R58 2013 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 304.209794/5 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | River City and valley life |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | an environmental history of the Sacramento region / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Christopher J. Castaneda and Lee M.A. Simpson. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Pittsburgh : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | University of Pittsburgh Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2013. |
| Place of manufacture | (Baltimore, Md. : |
| Manufacturer | Project MUSE, |
| Date of manufacture | 2015) |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (pages cm.) |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | History of the urban environment |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: The Indomitable City and Its Environmental Context / Steven M. Avella -- Part I. Boomtown Sacramento -- John A. Sutter and the Indian Business / Albert L. Hurtado -- River City : Sacramento's Gold Rush Birth and Transfiguration / Kenneth N. Owens -- "We Must Give the World Confidence in the Stability and Permanence of the Place" : Planning Sacramento's Townsite, 1853-1870 / Nathan Hallam -- Railroads and the Urban Environment : Sacramento's Story / Richard J. Orsi -- Part II. Valley Reclamation -- The Perils of Agriculture in Sacramento's Untamed Hinterland / David Vaught -- Rivers of Gold, Valley of Conquest : The Business of Levees and Dams in the Capital City / Todd Holmes -- Forging Transcontinental Alliances : The Sacramento River Valley in National Drainage and Flood Control Politics, 1900-1917 / Anthony E. Carlson -- Both "Country Town" and "Bustling Metropolis" : How Boosterism, Suburbs, and Narrative Helped Shape Sacramento's Identity and Environmental Sensibilities / Paul J.P. Sandul -- Part III. Government Town -- Unseen Investment : New Deal Sacramento / Gray Brechin and Lee M.A. Simpson -- The Legacy of War : Sacramento's Military Bases / Rand Herbert -- Recalling Rancho Seco : Voicing a Nuclear Past / Christopher J. Castaneda -- Part IV. Reclaiming the Past -- Dreams, Realizations, and Nightmares : The American River Parkway's Tumultuous Life, 1915-2011 / Alfred E. Holland, Jr. -- Thunder over the Valley : Environmental Politics and Indian Gaming in California / Tanis C. Thorne -- The Invention of Old Sacramento : A Past for the Future / Lee M.A. Simpson and Lisa C. Prince -- Epilogue: Sacramento, Before and After the Gold Rush / Ty O. Smith. |
| 520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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, seventeen 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. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or 'New Switzerland'). It was at Sutter's sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area's warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government's major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while 'Old Sacramento' revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento's pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento's identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Sacramento Valley (Calif.) |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Geographic name | Sacramento (Calif.) |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Geographic name | Sacramento Valley (Calif.) |
| General subdivision | Environmental conditions. |
| Geographic name | Sacramento (Calif.) |
| General subdivision | Environmental conditions. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Landscape changes |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| -- | Sacramento Valley |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Landscape changes |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| -- | Sacramento |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Nature |
| General subdivision | Effect of human beings on |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| -- | Sacramento |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Suburbs |
| General subdivision | Environmental aspects |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| -- | Sacramento |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Urbanization |
| General subdivision | Environmental aspects |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| -- | Sacramento |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | City planning |
| General subdivision | Environmental aspects |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| -- | Sacramento |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| Source of term | local |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Simpson, Lee M. A. |
| Personal name | Castaneda, Christopher James, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1959- |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Project Muse. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | Full text available: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780822979180/">https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780822979180/</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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