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Author: Albert L. Hurtado
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1999-04
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780826319548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.
Author: Alex Espinoza
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Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781944700829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground, to reveal the timeless art of cruising. Combining historical research and oral history with his own personal experience, Espinoza examines the political and cultural forces behind this radical pastime. From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr, Oscar Wilde to George Michael, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale―one in which men of all races and classes interact, even in the shadow of repressive governments
Author: Lois Halliday McDonald
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past few decades, thanks to a new generation of historians, our sense of just exactly who were the Founders of nineteenth-century American California has been significantly enlarged and enhanced. With the publication of this meticulously researched and elegantly written biography, what many of us have long suspected now stands clear: namely that Annie Kennedy Bidwell--in her concern for civilized and humane values and her willingness to put such values into practice--ranks among the great women of California in the nineteenth century. Like her husband, Annie Bidwell was a Founder. Historian Lois Halliday McDonald has recovered for us the splendor and moral purpose of an engaged and value-oriented American life. --Kevin Starr, University Professor of History, University of Southern California; State Librarian Emeritus
Author: Catherine Mulholland
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 159
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonard L. Richards
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-02-12
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307277577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Author: Fawn M. Brodie
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780393317527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this bestselling biography breaks new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life. "Brodie has humanized Jefferson without in the least diminishing him".--Wallace Stegner. Photos.
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986-12-04
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0199923256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Author: Steven W. Hackel
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-01-15
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0807839019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates textual and quantitative sources and weaves together analyses of disease and depopulation, marriage and sexuality, crime and punishment, and religious, economic, and political change. As colonization reduced their numbers and remade California, Indians congregated in missions, where they forged communities under Franciscan oversight. Yet missions proved disastrously unhealthful and coercive, as Franciscans sought control over Indians' beliefs and instituted unfamiliar systems of labor and punishment. Even so, remnants of Indian groups still survived when Mexican officials ended Franciscan rule in the 1830s. Many regained land and found strength in ancestral cultures that predated the Spaniards' arrival. At this study's heart are the dynamic interactions in and around Mission San Carlos Borromeo between Monterey region Indians (the Children of Coyote) and Spanish missionaries, soldiers, and settlers. Hackel places these local developments in the context of the California mission system and draws comparisons between California and other areas of the Spanish Borderlands and colonial America. Concentrating on the experiences of the Costanoan and Esselen peoples during the colonial period, Children of Coyote concludes with an epilogue that carries the story of their survival to the present day.
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780195118025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKevin Starr's portrait of California during the Great Depression is both detailed and panoramic. The study offers a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension.
