California: An Interpretive History with Map Poster
by RAWLSEdition: 9th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-12-13
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary
The best selling text in California History today, James Rawls' comprehensive, interpretive approach has engaged professors and students in discussion and analysis of the most populous and economically powerful state in the U.S. for over 30 years. Abundant graphics, maps, and photos bring California history alive for the student. This thoroughly updated ninth edition features a new six-part structure, placing the book's thirty-six shorter chapters within the framework of larger, overarching themes.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Geography and History | |
| The Origins of California Regional Diversity | |
| The Climates of California | |
| The Original Californians Food and Population | |
| Aspects of Material Culture Location, Linguistic Groups, Tribes Social Culture | |
| Discovery, Exploration, and Founding | |
| The Finding and Naming of California Cabrillo and the Discovery of Alta California Francis Drake and Nova Albion | |
| The Manila Galleon and the California Coast Vizcaino and Monterey Spain's Indian Policies | |
| The Mission as a Frontier Institution | |
| Galvez and the Plan for Alta California | |
| The Franciscans and Father Serra | |
| The Sacred Expedition | |
| Outposts of a Dying Empire Bucareli, Anza, and the Founding of San Francisco Neve and the Pueblos of San Jose and Los Angeles Native Resistance | |
| The Impact of the Missions Attempts at Reinforcement Exploration of the Central Valley | |
| The Coming of the Russians | |
| The Last Years Under the Spanish Flag | |
| A Marginal Province of a Troubled Republic Government and Politics in Theory and Practice | |
| The Secularization Problem From Echeandia to Figueroa Figueroa and Secularization Alvarado and Provincial Autonomy | |
| The Heyday of the Rancheros | |
| American Infiltration: Trader, Trappers, and Settlers | |
| The Yankee Traders | |
| The Beaver Trappers | |
| Early Settlers Covered Wagons, 1841-1846 | |
| The American Conquest Overtures, Diplomatic and Undiplomatic Plans of the Polk Administration | |
| John Charles Fremont | |
| The Bear Flag Revolt | |
| The Mexican War and California | |
| The Gold Rush and Economic Development Marshall's Discovery at Sutter's Mill | |
| The Forty-Eighters | |
| The Forty-Niners | |
| The Diggings Early Mining Methods | |
| Mining Camp Law From an Adventure to a Profession | |
| The Historical Significance of the Gold Rush | |
| A New State and Frontier Politics Military Governments | |
| The Constitutional Convention and Its Problems | |
| The First Legislature | |
| The Admission of California to the Union | |
| The Feud Between Broderick and Gwin Movements for State Division California and the Civil War | |
| Crime and Punishment | |
| The Nature of Vigilantism | |
| The 'Hounds' in San Francisco | |
| The San Francisco Committee of 1851 Statewide Vigilance | |
| The San Francisco Committee of 1856 | |
| Racial Oppression and Conflict Treatment of Mexican Miners Land-Title Troubles | |
| The Act of 1851 and the Land Commission | |
| Early Discrimination Against the Chinese | |
| The 'Indian Question' Episodes in Extermination Decline and Exploitation Enslaved and Free Blacks | |
| Culture and Anarchy Newspapers and Literary Magazines Writers of the Fifties Bret | |
| Harte Mark Twain | |
| Joaquin Miller and Other Poets Churches and Schools | |
| Building the Central Pacific Railroad | |
| Early Transportation Judah and the Conception of the Central | |
| Pacific Enter the Four 'Associates' Federal and State Support Difficulties and the Death of Judah | |
| Solving the Problems of Construction | |
| The 'Terrible Seventies' | |
| The Onset of Depression Transportation Monopoly | |
| Land Monopoly | |
| The Comstock and Overspeculation | |
| Political Turmoil and a New Constitution | |
| The Increase of Anti-Chinese Sentiment | |
| The Workingsmen's Party of California | |
| The Constitution of 1879 | |
| The Frustration of Reform Chinese Exclusion and Segregation | |
| Economic Growth | |
| The Wheat Bonanza Wines | |
| The Citrus Industry | |
| The Rise of Southern California Water and Land Electric Railways and Urbanization | |
| Culture and Oligarchy Henry | |
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