Taming the Elephant - Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California

Informationen zum Autor John F. Burns is former State Archivist of California and History-Social Science Consultant for the California Department of Education. His publications include Sacramento: Gold Rush Legacy! Metropolitan Destiny (1999)! and the forthcoming Capital Dreams: The Transformation of Sacramento. Richard J. Orsi is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University! Hayward! and Editor Emeritus of California History! quarterly of the California Historical Society. He is coauthor of The Elusive Eden: A New History of California (2002). Klappentext Lively! authoritative essays on the political history of California from the Gold Rush and the achievement of statehood through the end of the 19th century. The fourth and final volume in a series of essays on California history! copublished with the California State Historical Society. Zusammenfassung The final of four volumes in the "California History Sesquicentennial Series", this text compiles original essays which treat the consequential role of post-Gold Rush California government, politics and law in the building of a dynamic state, with lasting impact to the present day.

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• Authors: John F. Orsi Burns, James V. Wertsch
• Assisted by: John F. Burns (Editor), Burns John F. (Editor), Richard J. Orsi (Editor), Orsi Richard J. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2003
• EAN: 9780520234130
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23413-0
• No. of pages: 299
• Series: California History Sesquicente; California History Sesquicentennial Series; California History Sesquicentennial Series; California History Sesquicente
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, California, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas