Lawrence Culver
Biographic Data
| ID | 1125337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Culver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Culver |
| SIGNATURE | CULVER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating Climate, Culture, Nature, Science, and Race: A Roundtable on Climate History in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
What is climate history? How can it serve as a lens through which to view other historical questions? This roundtable identifies key themes in Gilded Age and Progressive Era climate history, and demonstrates that this era was pivotal for both scientific and cultural perceptions of climate. It also shows how climate history can illuminate other subjects, including histories of science, medicine, health, and race. Further, it considers present-day …
History and the Climate Crisis: Environmental History in the Classroom
Forum: Climate Change and Environmental History
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
The Desert and the Garden: Climate as Attractor and Obstacle in the Settlement History of the Western United States
This article examines climate and perceptions of climate as factors in the migration and settlement history of the western United States. It focuses on two regions of great interest in the nineteenth century. One, the so-called Great American Desert, in the western Great Plains, seemed a potential obstacle to settlement. The other, the Mexican state of Alta California, which after 1848 became the US state of California, proved a definite attracti…
Cultural tourism and sustainable local development
Cultural tourism and sustainable local development, edited by Girard, L.F. and Nijkamp, P., Surrey, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009, 338 pp., £65.00, ISBN 978-0-7546-7391-0 As tourism has grown as
Promoting the Pacific Borderlands: Leisure and Labor in Southern California, 1870-1950
Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
On the shores of Monterey, California, land and ocean meet. In this community, people—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, Anglo, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Portuguese—likewise met, mingled, and clashed. Fishing and tourism had emerged as Monterey's two economic pillars by the late nineteenth century, and these two industries often conflicted, pointing to different futures for the community and its abundant natural resources. In Shaping the Sh…
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative Get access Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative. By Abel Emily K.. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xviii + 176 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95, paper.) Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue…
California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place
Los Dias Pasados: Tales from Nineteenth-Century California 2. The Road: El Camino Real and Mission Nostalgia 3. The Fair: Panama-California Exposition and Regional Ambitions Part Two: Living with the Past 4. The Home: Rancho Santa Fe and Suburban Style 5. The Market: Olvera Street and Urban Space 6. Conclusion: The Trouble with Red-Tile Roofs Notes Index
Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California
Journal Article Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California Get access Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. By DeLyser Dydia. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xxiii + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $56.95, cloth; $18.95, paper). Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western …
Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1945
Journal Article Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1945 Get access Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1945. By Padget Martin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xiv + 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $37.95.) Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 3, A…
Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West
Journal Article Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West Get access Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited by Wrobel David M. Long Patrick T.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Illustrations, notes, index. xv + 336 pp. $45, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historica…
Connecting Myth to History: Interpreting the Western Past at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Journal Article Field Notes Connecting Myth to History: Interpreting the Western Past at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center Get access Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver interned at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in 1997, doctoral student UCLA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 515–519, https://doi.org/10.2307/970406 Published: 01 November …
Forum: Climate Change and Environmental History
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
The Desert and the Garden: Climate as Attractor and Obstacle in the Settlement History of the Western United States
This article examines climate and perceptions of climate as factors in the migration and settlement history of the western United States. It focuses on two regions of great interest in the nineteenth century. One, the so-called Great American Desert, in the western Great Plains, seemed a potential obstacle to settlement. The other, the Mexican state of Alta California, which after 1848 became the US state of California, proved a definite attracti…
Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
On the shores of Monterey, California, land and ocean meet. In this community, people—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, Anglo, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Portuguese—likewise met, mingled, and clashed. Fishing and tourism had emerged as Monterey's two economic pillars by the late nineteenth century, and these two industries often conflicted, pointing to different futures for the community and its abundant natural resources. In Shaping the Sh…
Connecting Myth to History: Interpreting the Western Past at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Journal Article Field Notes Connecting Myth to History: Interpreting the Western Past at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center Get access Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver interned at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in 1997, doctoral student UCLA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 515–519, https://doi.org/10.2307/970406 Published: 01 November …
Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West
Journal Article Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West Get access Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited by Wrobel David M. Long Patrick T.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Illustrations, notes, index. xv + 336 pp. $45, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historica…
Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1945
Journal Article Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1945 Get access Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1945. By Padget Martin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xiv + 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $37.95.) Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 3, A…
Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California
Journal Article Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California Get access Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. By DeLyser Dydia. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xxiii + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $56.95, cloth; $18.95, paper). Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western …
California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place
Los Dias Pasados: Tales from Nineteenth-Century California 2. The Road: El Camino Real and Mission Nostalgia 3. The Fair: Panama-California Exposition and Regional Ambitions Part Two: Living with the Past 4. The Home: Rancho Santa Fe and Suburban Style 5. The Market: Olvera Street and Urban Space 6. Conclusion: The Trouble with Red-Tile Roofs Notes Index
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative Get access Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative. By Abel Emily K.. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xviii + 176 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95, paper.) Lawrence Culver Lawrence Culver Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue…
Promoting the Pacific Borderlands: Leisure and Labor in Southern California, 1870-1950
Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
On the shores of Monterey, California, land and ocean meet. In this community, people—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, Anglo, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Portuguese—likewise met, mingled, and clashed. Fishing and tourism had emerged as Monterey's two economic pillars by the late nineteenth century, and these two industries often conflicted, pointing to different futures for the community and its abundant natural resources. In Shaping the Sh…
Cultural tourism and sustainable local development
Cultural tourism and sustainable local development, edited by Girard, L.F. and Nijkamp, P., Surrey, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009, 338 pp., £65.00, ISBN 978-0-7546-7391-0 As tourism has grown as
The Desert and the Garden: Climate as Attractor and Obstacle in the Settlement History of the Western United States
This article examines climate and perceptions of climate as factors in the migration and settlement history of the western United States. It focuses on two regions of great interest in the nineteenth century. One, the so-called Great American Desert, in the western Great Plains, seemed a potential obstacle to settlement. The other, the Mexican state of Alta California, which after 1848 became the US state of California, proved a definite attracti…
Forum: Climate Change and Environmental History
This Forum explores global climate change, one of this century's most prominent environmental issues. Authors answer two critical questions: (1) How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? This introductory essay (and the Forum more generally) contribute to both environmental hi…
Navigating Climate, Culture, Nature, Science, and Race: A Roundtable on Climate History in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
What is climate history? How can it serve as a lens through which to view other historical questions? This roundtable identifies key themes in Gilded Age and Progressive Era climate history, and demonstrates that this era was pivotal for both scientific and cultural perceptions of climate. It also shows how climate history can illuminate other subjects, including histories of science, medicine, health, and race. Further, it considers present-day …
History and the Climate Crisis: Environmental History in the Classroom
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