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Subject(s)

• California—History [Browse]
• California—Social conditions [Browse]
• California—Politics and government [Browse]

Editor

• Deverell, William [Browse]
• Igler, David [Browse]

Series

• Blackwell companions to American history ; 17. [More in this series]
• Wiley Blackwell companions to American history ; 17

Summary note

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 fieldEssays range widely across perspectives, including political, social, economic, and environmental historyEssays with similar approaches are paired and grouped to work as individual pieces and as companions to each other throughout the textProduced in association with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

Notes

• The publication date "2008" under Book Details on the website is incorrect. It should be "2014."
• The volume "35" under Book Details on the website is incorrect. It should be "17."
• Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 8, 2017).

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; Index; Figures; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Introductory Essays; Chapter One: Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining California through Culture; Chapter Two: Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State: Defining California through History; Chapter Three: I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining California through Visual Culture; Chapter Four: At the Crossroads: Defining California through the Global Economy; Part II: Early California; Chapter Five: Junípero Serra across the Generations
• Chapter Six: Alta California, the Pacific, and International Commerce before the Gold RushChapter Seven: Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society; Chapter Eight: Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century; Part III: Conquest and Statehood; Chapter Nine: The 1850s; Chapter Ten: Nature and Conquest: After the Deluge of '49; Chapter Eleven: Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter Twelve: Transformations in Late Nineteenth-century Rural California; Chapter Thirteen: Transnational Commercial Orbits; Chapter Fourteen: Reconsidering Conservation
• Chapter Fifteen: Religion in the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter Sixteen: Immigration, Race, and the Progressives; Chapter Seventeen: New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s; Part IV: Modern California; Chapter Eighteen: World War II; Chapter Nineteen:Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity; Chapter Twenty: Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and the Twentieth Century; Chapter Twenty-one: The Long 1950s; Chapter Twenty-two: Apportionment Politics, 1920-70; Chapter Twenty-three: Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the Postwar Decades
• Chapter Twenty-four: At the Center of Indian CountryChapter Twenty-five: Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics; Chapter Twenty-six: A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez; Chapter Twenty-seven: Hollywood Changes its Script; Part V: California Prospects in the Twenty-first Century; Chapter Twenty-eight: Immigration and Race in the Twenty-first Century; Chapter Twenty-nine: Political Prospects in the Twenty-first Century; Chapter Thirty: Environmental Prospects in the Twenty-first Century

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ISBN

• 1-78034-042-7
• 1-4443-0503-4
• 1-4051-6183-3
• 1-4051-8484-1
• 1-4443-0504-2

OCLC

• 863673178
• 988175222
• 1027164524

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