Contested Eden California Before the Gold Rush

Name: Contested Eden California Before the Gold Rush
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ISBN: 9780520212749

ISBN-10: 0520212746

ISBN-13: 9780520212749

Edition: 1998

Authors: Ramï¿½n A. Gutiï¿½rrez, Richard J. Orsi

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Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars offer a contemporary perspective on such issues as the evolution of a distinctive California culture, the interaction between people and the natural environment, the ways in which California's development affected the United States and the world, and the legacy of cultural and ethnic diversity in the state. California before the Gold Rush, the first California Sesquicentennial volume, combines…

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 395
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



List of Maps


Preface




Contested Eden: An Introduction




A World of Balance and Plenty: Land, Plants, Animals, and Humans in a Pre-European California




Indian Peoples of California




Seekers of the "Northern Mystery": European Exploration of California and the Pacific




Land, Labor, and Production: The Colonial Economy of Spanish and Mexican California




"The Child of the Wilderness Weeps for the Father of Our Country": The Indian and the Politics of Church and State in Provincial California




The Creation and Re-creation of California Society




Between Crucifix and Lance: Indian-White Relations in California, 1769-1848




Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769-1848: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family




Serpent in the Garden: Environmental Change in Colonial California




Alta California's Trojan Horse: Foreign Immigration




War in California, 1846-1848



Picturing California



List of Contributors


Index