California Chronology
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Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Stanadard Print. Company
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 72
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Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Stanadard Print. Company
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1992-12-16
Total Pages: 806
ISBN-13: 9780520909915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan Schoenherr describes a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California will familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants and animals in each distinctive region of the state.
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2007-03-13
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 081297753X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco
Author: Andrew F. Rolle
Publisher: New York : Crowell
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 778
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fred Glass
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-06-28
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 0520288408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workersÕ rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. WhatÕs the difference? California has held an exceptional place in the imagination of Americans and immigrants since the Gold Rush, which saw the first of many waves of working people moving to the state to find work. From Mission to Microchip unearths the hidden stories of these people throughout CaliforniaÕs history. The difficult task of the stateÕs labor movement has been to overcome perceived barriers such as race, national origin, and language to unite newcomers and natives in their shared interest. As chronicled in this comprehensive history, workers have creatively used collective bargaining, politics, strikes, and varied organizing strategies to find common ground among CaliforniaÕs diverse communities and achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. This is an indispensible book for students and scholars of labor history and history of the West, as well as labor activists and organizers.Ê
Author: Orra Eugene Monnette
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781333632342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from California Chronology: A Period of Three Hundred and Fifty Years, 1510-1860 The first settlement on the Atlantic Coast was Saint Augustine, now in Florida, in 1565, but which was not continuous. The Jamestown settle ment of 1607 and the landing of the May ower in 1620 are the early dates of American history; but the founding of the town of San Gabriel in later New Mexico in 1598, though not permanent, antedates the formerby nine and the latter by twenty-two years. And, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the second, oldest and permanent city in the United States. It is both interesting and historically important to note that King James I. Of England, in making his second grant of land on the North American Continent, in Virginia, known as the Jamestown Charter, being dated May 23, 1609, without either knowing or appreciating the territorial limits of his grant, in fact so dedicated its boundaries as to include within it the greater portion of the present State of California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Robert Glass Cleland
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume ... aims to complement the work of Dr. Charles E. Chapman, whose History of California : the Spanish period, has already been published."--Preface
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 848
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Orra Eugene 1873-1936 Monnette
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2015-08-24
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781340197810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Jared Farmer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 0393078027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles.