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A Companion to California History

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.11.2008

Herausgeber

Deverell William + weitere

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

544

Maße (L/B/H)

25,1/18/3,6 cm

Gewicht

1116 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6183-1

Beschreibung

Portrait

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of numerous publications including A Companion to the American West (Blackwell, 2004), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and (edited with Greg Hise) Land of Sunshine: The Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005).

David Igler is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 (2001) and co-editor (with Clark Davis) of The Human Tradition in California (2002). He has published articles in the numerous history journals, including the American Historical Review, the Pacific Historical Review, Environmental History, and the Journal of Urban History.

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.11.2008

Herausgeber

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

544

Maße (L/B/H)

25,1/18/3,6 cm

Gewicht

1116 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6183-1

Herstelleradresse

Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: A Companion to California History

  • List of Figures viii

    Notes on Contributors ix

    Introduction xiii

    Part I Introductory Essays 1

    1. Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining California through Culture 3
    James Quay

    2. Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State: Defining California through History 22
    D. J. Waldie

    3. I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining California through Visual Culture 40
    Catherine Gudis

    4. At the Crossroads: Defi ning California through the Global Economy 75
    Richard A. Walker

    Part II Early California 97

    5. Junípero Serra across the Generations 99
    Steven W. Hackel

    6. Alta California, the Pacifi c, and International Commerce before the Gold Rush 116
    David Igler

    7. Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society 127
    Rosamaría Toruño Tanghetti

    8. Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century 145
    Omar Valerio-Jiménez

    Part III Conquest and Statehood 159

    9. The 1850s 161
    William Deverell

    10. Nature and Conquest: After the Deluge of '49 175
    Douglas Cazaux Sackman

    11. Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century 192
    William Bauer, Jr.

    12. Transformations in Late Nineteenth-century Rural California 215
    David Vaught

    13. Transnational Commercial Orbits 230
    Robert Chao Romero

    14. Reconsidering Conservation 246
    Benjamin Heber Johnson

    15. Religion in the Early Twentieth Century 262
    Darren Dochuk

    16. Immigration, Race, and the Progressives 278
    Lon Kurashige

    17. New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s 292
    Rick Wartzman

    Part IV Modern California 309

    18. World War II 311
    Arthur Verge

    19. Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity 322
    Daniel Hurewitz

    20. Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and the Twentieth Century 339
    Kevin Allen Leonard

    21. The Long 1950s 358
    Shana Bernstein

    22. Apportionment Politics, 1920-70 375
    Douglas Smith

    23. Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the Postwar Decades 391
    Kirse Granat May

    24. At the Center of Indian Country 405
    Nicolas G. Rosenthal

    25. Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics 416
    Josh Sides

    26. A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez 428
    Miriam Pawel

    27. Hollywood Changes its Script 443
    John Horn

    Part V California Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 453

    28. Immigration and Race in the Twenty-first Century 455
    Bill Ong Hing

    29. Political Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 472
    Raphael J. Sonenshein

    30. Environmental Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 483
    Jon Christensen

    Index 499