California : a history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Library,
[2005]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Modern Library chronicles ;
23. |
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Table of Contents:
- Queen Calafia's Island: Place and first people.
- Laws of the Indies: The Spanish Colonial era.
- A troubled territory: Mexican California.
- Striking it rich: The establishment of an American state.
- Regulation, railroad, and revolution: Achievement and turmoil in the new state.
- The higher provincialism: American life in an emergent region.
- Great expectations: Creating the infra-structure of a mega-state.
- Making it happen: Labor through the Great Depression and beyond.
- War and peace: Garrison state and suburban growth.
- O brave new world!: Seeking utopia through science and technology.
- An imagined place: Art and life on the coast of dreams.
- Ecumenopolis: Forging a world society.
- Arnold!: Stewardship or squandered legacy?