Ebook: California: a history
Author: Starr Kevin
- Tags: HISTORY--United States--State & Local--General, History, California -- History, HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General, California, Kalifornien
- Series: Modern Library chronicles 23
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: New York;California;Kalifornien
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
Presents a comprehensive history of the state of California describing its early native peoples, Spanish conquest, the Gold Rush of 1848, the railroad, San Francisco earthquake, and much more.;Queen Calafia's Island: Place and first people. -- Laws of the Indies: The Spanish Colonial era. -- A troubled territory: Mexican California. -- Striking it rich: The establishment of an American state. -- Regulation, railroad, and revolution: Achievement and turmoil in the new state. -- The higher provincialism: American life in an emergent region. -- Great expectations: Creating the infra-structure of a mega-state. -- Making it happen: Labor through the Great Depression and beyond. -- War and peace: Garrison state and suburban growth. -- O brave new world!: Seeking utopia through science and technology. -- An imagined place: Art and life on the coast of dreams. -- Ecumenopolis: Forging a world society. -- Arnold!: Stewardship or squandered legacy?
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