Deverell / Igler A Companion to California History

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0504-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 544 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to American History

This volume of original essays by leading scholars is aninnovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture ofCalifornia.
* Includes 30 essays by leading scholars in the field
* Essays range widely across perspectives, including political,social, economic, and environmental history
* Essays with similar approaches are paired and grouped to workas individual pieces and as companions to each other throughout thetext
* Produced in association with the Huntington-USC Institute onCalifornia and the West

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deverell, William

Igler, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction xiii
Part I Introductory Essays 1
1. Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining Californiathrough Culture 3
James Quay
2. Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State:Defining California through History 22
D. J. Waldie
3. I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining Californiathrough Visual Culture 40
Catherine Gudis
4. At the Crossroads: Defi ning California through the GlobalEconomy 75
Richard A. Walker
Part II Early California 97
5. Junípero Serra across the Generations 99
Steven W. Hackel
6. Alta California, the Pacifi c, and International Commercebefore the Gold Rush 116
David Igler
7. Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society127
Rosamaría Toruño Tanghetti
8. Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century 145
Omar Valerio-Jiménez
Part III Conquest and Statehood 159
9. The 1850s 161
William Deverell
10. Nature and Conquest: After the Deluge of '49 175
Douglas Cazaux Sackman
11. Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century 192
William Bauer, Jr.
12. Transformations in Late Nineteenth-century Rural California215
David Vaught
13. Transnational Commercial Orbits 230
Robert Chao Romero
14. Reconsidering Conservation 246
Benjamin Heber Johnson
15. Religion in the Early Twentieth Century 262
Darren Dochuk
16. Immigration, Race, and the Progressives 278
Lon Kurashige
17. New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s 292
Rick Wartzman
Part IV Modern California 309
18. World War II 311
Arthur Verge
19. Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity322
Daniel Hurewitz
20. Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and theTwentieth Century 339
Kevin Allen Leonard
21. The Long 1950s 358
Shana Bernstein
22. Apportionment Politics, 1920-70 375
Douglas Smith
23. Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the PostwarDecades 391
Kirse Granat May
24. At the Center of Indian Country 405
Nicolas G. Rosenthal
25. Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics 416
Josh Sides
26. A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacyof Cesar Chavez 428
Miriam Pawel
27. Hollywood Changes its Script 443
John Horn
Part V California Prospects in the Twenty-first Century453
28. Immigration and Race in the Twenty-first Century 455
Bill Ong Hing
29. Political Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 472
Raphael J. Sonenshein
30. Environmental Prospects in the Twenty-first Century483
Jon Christensen
Index 499

Über Autor(innen)

William Deverell is Professor of History at theUniversity of Southern California and Director of theHuntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is theauthor of numerous publications including Land of Sunshine: TheEnvironmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (with GregHise, 2005) and A Companion to Los Angeles (with Greg Hise,2010).
David Igler is Professor of History at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine, where he teaches courses in U.S.,environmental, and California history. He is the author ofThe Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the GoldRush (2013), and Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux andthe Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 (2001).