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Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, And The Shaping Of California
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| #4263986 in Books | 1997-05-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.50 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages||2 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| The Way We Were?|By Mary Ann Cooke|First of all, let me just express that this book was painfully difficult to read. I don't mean that it was painful in the sense that it appealed to my compassionate side, but rather that it was excruciatingly dry. The author constantly made references to people, places, and books of which I've never heard as though I should already know the|.com |David Wyatt offers a far-seeing account of California history, shaped by a complex of catastrophes--ethnic clashes, ecological conquests, fires, and earthquakes--that are replayed even today. He writes of politicians who founded their careers on ideas of
Fire is a phenomenon both destructive and transforming, its story found in the ruins it leaves behind as well as the survivors that rise from its ashes. In this wholly original study, cultural historian and critic David Wyatt uses the story of fire to tell the story of California. Wyatt focuses this “catastrophic history” of his native state on five events that swept through California, altering its physical and political landscape and the way both were repre...
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