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"One of a series of books written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the admission of California to the Union, emphasizes the natural environment, the history of the Indians, exploration, and social and economic history, rather than the traditional institutional studies of mission and presidio. Takes advantage of the latest research and includes contributions by leading scholars"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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Includes information on agricultural workers, aqueducts, Concepcion Arguello, banking, booms, California Indians, cattle industry, Central Pacific Railroad, Chinese, Samuel Clemens, Colorado River, earthquakes, emigration, Spanish explorations, Gold Rush, hydroelectric power, irrigation, labor, Lincoln-Roosevelt League, Jack London, Los Angeles, Monterey, John Muir, New Spain, Frank Norris, Oil, Pony Express, Gaspar de Portola, transcontinental railroads,...
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In this study, cultural historian and critic David Wyatt uses the story of fire to tell the story of California. Wyatt focuses this "catastrophic history" of his native state on five events that swept through California, altering its physical and political landscape and the way both were represented in art and literature. Wyatt begins with the accidental importation and spread of the wild oat in the 1770s, a process that had its human counterpart...
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The brutal and systematic "ethnic cleansing" of Chinese-Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the 19th century is a shocking and virtually unexplored chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation's past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in 1849, lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians purged dozens of communities of thousands...
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