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Informationen zum Autor William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of numerous publications including A Companion to the American West (Blackwell, 2004), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and (edited with Greg Hise) Land of Sunshine: The Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angel es (2005). David Igler is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 (2001) and co-editor (with Clark Davis) of The Human Tradition in California (2002). He has published articles in the numerous history journals, including the American Historical Review , the Pacific Historical Review , Environmental History , and the Journal of Urban History . Klappentext This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California from its inception to the present day. Written by both senior scholars and new voices in the field as well as non-academic subject specialists, the essays range widely across perspectives, including political, social, economic, and environmental history. The volume's unique structure pairs and groups essays that are similar in approach and conception so they work both as individual pieces and also as companions to each other throughout the text. Emerging out of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, a new research and teaching project associated with the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California, the Companion to California History is a valuable resource for students and researchers of the history of the Golden State. Zusammenfassung This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative! thorough introduction to the history and culture of California from its inception to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction xiii Part I Introductory Essays 1 1. Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining California through 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 California through Visual Culture 40 Catherine Gudis 4. At the Crossroads: Defi ning California through the Global Economy 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 Commerce before the Gold Rush 116 David Igler 7. Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society 127 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 California 215 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 D...
