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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 852
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.
Author: Laurence H. Shoup
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 1450255906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the forgotten history of early California from the viewpoint of the working poor, blacks, immigrants, and other disenfranchised groups who rebelled against rulers.
Author: Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1996-05-15
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0299149749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
Author: Leonard Pitt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780520016378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK""Decline of the Californios" is one of those rare works that first gained fame for its pathbreaking and original nature, but which now maintains its status as a classic of California and ethnic history."--Douglas Monroy, author of "Thrown among Strangers"
Author: Mark Twain
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Brewer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780520027626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.
Author: Eric Avila
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 019020060X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world and its peoples. This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments. Across the lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as language, region, and religion, diverse Americans have forged a national culture with a global reach, inventing stories that have shaped a national identity and an American way of life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-05-30
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 3385485894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1887.
Author: Carl Brent Swisher
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Alan Johnson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 0520910982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFounding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions but no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials of antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers—on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning to the constitutions they had produced.
