Bøger i California Studies in the Hist serien

The Pyramid flora (15.8 m. years) is wholly dominated by broadleaved deciduous hardwoods of eastern alliance that indicate ample summer rain. Deciduous hardwoods are largely absent from slightly younger nearby floras (less than 15.8 m. years) that are dominated by mixed conifer and broadleaved evergreen forest species. The change is attributed to reduced summer rain that reflects global climatic change influenced by spreading antarctic ice.

"Kinser proposes a very persuasive post-Bakhtinian approach to Rabelais's novel and its relation to the carnival. His new historical epistemology, emphasizing as it does the genetic function of an archival 'metatext, ' is compatible with a sophisticated semiotic analysis of the Rabelaisian text. This is a timely, erudite and subtle book which bases its theoretical arguments on solid documentary and textual evidence."Michel Beaujour, New York University"