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A Companion to California History
"A rich harvest of the New California History, grown to ripeness and diversity in the garden planted by Carey McWilliams and Kevin Starr." "In tandem with the emergence of California as a nation-state of global importance, the assessment of California – as place, people, society, culture, and history – has gone into Warp Speed. Nowhere is this more evident than in this brilliant and eminently useful Starship Enterprise of California studies by an elite crew of Next Generation experts."
–Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine
–Kevin Starr, University of Southern California
William Deverell (Edited by), W Deverell (Author), David Igler (Edited by)
9781118798041, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 27 December 2013
544 pages
24.6 x 17 x 3 cm, 0.885 kg
“This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California.” (Native American Encyclopedia, 8 January 2014) "Like the best of California, the engaging essays collected in this compendium reveal – and revel in – a history of immense diversity and astonishing possibility. More than a "companion," these dazzling essays offer a friendly ‘field guide’ to California's past (and an excellent vantage point from which to contemplate its present and future)." ". . . a useful book. For somebody whose training is in history . . ., there is enough substance in each chapter to make it worthwhile.... Like all Blackwell Companions, this volume is pleasant to use and handle." (Reference Reviews, 2009)
–Stephen Aron, UCLA and Autry Institute for the Study of the American West
This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California.
List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction xiii Part I Introductory Essays 1 1. Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining California through Culture 3 2. Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State: Defining California through History 22 3. I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining California through Visual Culture 40 4. At the Crossroads: Defining California through the Global Economy 75 Part II Early California 97 5. Junípero Serra across the Generations 99 6. Alta California, the Pacific, and International Commerce before the Gold Rush 116 7. Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society 127 8. Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century 145 Part III Conquest and Statehood 159 9. The 1850s 161 10. Nature and Conquest: After the Deluge of ’49 175 11. Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century 192 12. Transformations in Late Nineteenth-century Rural California 215 13. Transnational Commercial Orbits 230 14. Reconsidering Conservation 246 15. Religion in the Early Twentieth Century 262 16. Immigration, Race, and the Progressives 278 17. New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s 292 Part IV Modern California 309 18. World War II 311 19. Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity 322 20. Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and the Twentieth Century 339 21. The Long 1950s 358 22. Apportionment Politics, 1920–70 375 23. Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the Postwar Decades 391 24. At the Center of Indian Country 405 25. Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics 416 26. A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez 428 27. Hollywood Changes its Script 443 Part V California Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 453 28. Immigration and Race in the Twenty-first Century 455 29. Political Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 472 30. Environmental Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 483 Index 499
James Quay
D. J. Waldie
Catherine Gudis
Richard A. Walker
Steven W. Hackel
David Igler
Rosamaría Toruño Tanghetti
Omar Valerio-Jiménez
William Deverell
Douglas Cazaux Sackman
William Bauer, Jr.
David Vaught
Robert Chao Romero
Benjamin Heber Johnson
Darren Dochuk
Lon Kurashige
Rick Wartzman
Arthur Verge
Daniel Hurewitz
Kevin Allen Leonard
Shana Bernstein
Douglas Smith
Kirse Granat May
Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Josh Sides
Miriam Pawel
John Horn
Bill Ong Hing
Raphael J. Sonenshein
Jon Christensen
Subject Areas: History [HB]
