The Bancroft Library at 150
Subtitle: A Sesquicentennial Symposium
Publisher: Univ of California Pr; The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
Published: 2011
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781893663367
Subjects: Congresses; History; Congrès; Histoire; Bancroft Library
Table of contents: title: Toward an environmental history of the book: the nature of Hubert Howe Bancroft's Works  -- Thomas G. Andrews; title: More than "hide and tallow" : Indians in America's California commerce before the gold rush  -- Michael D. Block; title: Comanches in the cast: recovering Mexico's "eminently national" war, 1831-1846  -- Brian DeLay; title: California and the borderlands: a multiethnic place that lives quietly in the archives  -- Lisbeth Haas; title: Madness and migration in gold-rush era California and British Columbia: the comparative dimensions of borderland insanity  -- Angela Hawk; title: Herbert E. Bolton and the Bancroft Library -- Albert L. Hurtado.