A Companion to California History

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Paperback, 538 blz. | Engels
John Wiley & Sons | e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9781118798041
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This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California.

Includes 30 essays by leading scholars in the field
Essays range widely across perspectives, including political, social, economic, and environmental history
Essays with similar approaches are paired and grouped to work as individual pieces and as companions to each other throughout the text
Produced in association with the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West

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ISBN13:9781118798041
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:538

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<p>List of Figures viii</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p>
<p>Introduction xiii</p>
<p>Part I Introductory Essays 1</p>
<p>1. Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining California through Culture 3<br /> James Quay</p>
<p>2. Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State: Defining California through History 22<br /> D. J. Waldie</p>
<p>3. I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining California through Visual Culture 40<br /> Catherine Gudis</p>
<p>4. At the Crossroads: Defi ning California through the Global Economy 75<br /> Richard A. Walker</p>
<p>Part II Early California 97</p>
<p>5. Jun&iacute;pero Serra across the Generations 99<br /> Steven W. Hackel</p>
<p>6. Alta California, the Pacifi c, and International Commerce before the Gold Rush 116<br /> David Igler</p>
<p>7. Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society 127<br /> Rosamar&iacute;a Toru&ntilde;o Tanghetti</p>
<p>8. Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century 145<br /> Omar Valerio–Jim&eacute;nez</p>
<p>Part III Conquest and Statehood 159</p>
<p>9. The 1850s 161<br /> William Deverell</p>
<p>10. Nature and Conquest: After the Deluge of 49 175<br /> Douglas Cazaux Sackman</p>
<p>11. Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century 192<br /> William Bauer, Jr.</p>
<p>12. Transformations in Late Nineteenth–century Rural California 215<br /> David Vaught</p>
<p>13. Transnational Commercial Orbits 230<br /> Robert Chao Romero</p>
<p>14. Reconsidering Conservation 246<br /> Benjamin Heber Johnson</p>
<p>15. Religion in the Early Twentieth Century 262<br /> Darren Dochuk</p>
<p>16. Immigration, Race, and the Progressives 278<br /> Lon Kurashige</p>
<p>17. New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s 292<br /> Rick Wartzman</p>
<p>Part IV Modern California 309</p>
<p>18. World War II 311<br /> Arthur Verge</p>
<p>19. Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity 322<br /> Daniel Hurewitz</p>
<p>20. Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and the Twentieth Century 339<br /> Kevin Allen Leonard</p>
<p>21. The Long 1950s 358<br /> Shana Bernstein</p>
<p>22. Apportionment Politics, 1920 70 375<br /> Douglas Smith</p>
<p>23. Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the Postwar Decades 391<br /> Kirse Granat May</p>
<p>24. At the Center of Indian Country 405<br /> Nicolas G. Rosenthal</p>
<p>25. Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics 416<br /> Josh Sides</p>
<p>26. A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez 428<br /> Miriam Pawel</p>
<p>27. Hollywood Changes its Script 443<br /> John Horn</p>
<p>Part V California Prospects in the Twenty–first Century 453</p>
<p>28. Immigration and Race in the Twenty–first Century 455<br /> Bill Ong Hing</p>
<p>29. Political Prospects in the Twenty–first Century 472<br /> Raphael J. Sonenshein</p>
<p>30. Environmental Prospects in the Twenty–first Century 483<br /> Jon Christensen</p>
<p>Index 499</p>
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