Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 748 g
Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 748 g
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9453-2
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
* Presents a provocative and original interpretation of the entire span of California history
* Reveals how the area's Pacific Basin connections have shaped the Golden State's past
* Refutes the widely held notion among historians that California was isolated before the onset of the American period in the mid-1800s
* Represents the first text to draw on anthropologist Jon Erlandson's findings that California's first human inhabitants were likely prehistoric Asian seafarers who navigated the Pacific Rim coastline
* Includes instructor resources in an online companion site: www.wiley.com/go/osborne
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Präkolumbische Geschichte Amerikas
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations xiii
Foreword xvi
Janet Fireman
Preface xviii
Acknowledgments xxi
1 Beginnings: From Fire and Ice to Indian Homeland 1
Timeline 2
Landforms 2
Climates 6
Plants and Animals 8
First Peoples and Their New Homeland 9
Tribal and Linguistic Groupings 12
Material Culture 14
Religion and Social Practices 16
Pacific Profile: Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber 19
The Chumash: Pacific Coast Mariners and Traders 19
Other Possible Early Voyagers to California 21
2 Spain's Greater California Coast 25
Timeline 25
A Name, a Dream, a Land 27
Cabrillo's Coastal Reconnaissance 28
Globalization Begins: The Manila Galleon Trade 30
Drake, Nova Albion, and Cermeño 32
The Spanish Pacific, Vizcaíno, and Monterey 34
Colonizing California: Missions, Indians, and the Sea 35
Ranchos, Presidios, and Pueblos 42
Gender and Sexuality in a Frontier Society 44
Pacific Profile: Alejandro Malaspina, Mariner-Explorer 45
The TransPacific Fur Trade 46
Hippolyte de Bouchard's Pirate Raids 483 A Globally Connected Mexican Province 53
Timeline 53
Mexico's Misrule of California 55
Secularization of the Missions 56
Hides, Tallow, and Rancho Society 59
Fur Trappers 64
Early Settlers and Overland Emigrants 66
Pacific Profile: Alpheus B. Thompson, China Trader 70
"Thar She Blows:" New England Whalers 71
The Charles Wilkes Pacific Expedition 72
4 War and Gold: America's West Coast Eldorado 78
Timeline 78
California and the Pacific Squadron 80
Jumping the Gun at Monterey 81
Polk, the Pacific, and the Outbreak of War 84
California and the Mexican War 88
Gold, Ships, and Wagon Trains 91
Pacific Profile: William H. Aspinwall, President of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company 95
The World Rushed In 96
Life in the Diggings 97
The Gold Rush's International Economic Impacts 100
5 National Crisis, Statehood, and Social Change 105
Timeline 106
A Constitution, a Legislature, a State 107
Land Disputes and Independence Movements 110
Vigilance Committees and Untamed Politicians 112
Pacific Filibusterers 116
California, the Pacific, and the Civil War 118
Ocean Crossings: The Chinese on Sea and Land 120
Pacific Profile: Norman Asing, Chinese American Restaurateur 123
Californios and Other Spanish-Speakers 124
Indians: A People under Siege 126
African Americans: Up from Bondage 127
6 Pacific-Bound Rails, Hard Times, and Chinese Exclusion 132
Timeline 133
A Transcontinental Railroad, California, and Pacific Commerce 134
Theodore Judah, the Big Four, and the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 136
Chinese Laborers and the Push Eastward 140
The Southern Pacific Railroad and the American West 143
Pacific Profile: Seafaring Journalist Charles Nordhoff 146
Transpacific Steamers 147
Depression and the Anti-Chinese Movement 148
The Constitution of 1879 152
Halting Chinese Immigration 153
7 Eldorado's Economic and Cultural Growth 158
Timeline 158
Water, Land, and Rural Development 160
Commercial Agriculture 162
Black and White Gold 166
Interurban Railways and Southern California's Rise 168California's Maritime Economy 171
Pacific Profile: David Laamea Kalakaua, King of Hawai'i and Visitor 175
California and the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War 176
A Cosmopolitan Culture 178
8 Anti-Railroad Politics, Municipal Graft , and Labor Struggles 186
Timeline 187
The Battle of Mussel Slough 188
An Angry Widow Sues: The Colton Letters 190
Pacific Gateway: Locating a Harbor in Los Angeles 190
Pacific Profile: Phineas Banning, Port of Los Angeles and
Santa Catalina Promoter 192
Debt Dodging Denounced 193
The Southern Pacific Political Machine 194
The "Queen City of the Pacific:" Boss Ruef 's San Francisco 195
Foiled Reform: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Graft Trials 197
Maritime and Factory Labor 201
Field Work and the Wheatland Riot 206
9 Governor Hiram Johnson and Pacific-Oriented Progressivism 211
Timeline 212
The Beginnings of Reform 213
An "Aggressive Advocate" and the 1910 Election 215