A Companion to California History

Herausgeber: Deverell, William; Igler, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 180mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1111g
• ISBN-13: 9781405161831
• ISBN-10: 1405161833
• Artikelnr.: 23586274

Autorenporträt

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 Angeles (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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: William Deverell and David Igler.

Notes on Contributors.

Part I: Introductory Essays:.

1. Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining Californiathrough Culture:.

2. Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State:Defining California through History.

3. I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining CaliforniaThrough Visual Culture.

4. At the Crossroads: Defining California Through the GlobalEconomy.

Part II: Early California:.

5. Junípero Serra Across the Generations: Steven W.Hackel.

6. Alta California, the Pacific, and International CommerceBefore the Gold Rush.

7. Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society.

8. Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century.

Part III: Conquest and Statehood:.

9. The 1850s: William Deverell.

10. Nature & Conquest: After the Deluge of '49.

11. Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century.

12. Transformations in Late Nineteenth Century RuralCalifornia.

13. Transnational Commercial Orbits.

14. Reconsidering Conservation.

15. Religion in the Early Twentieth-Century.

16. Immigration, Race, and the Progressives.

17. New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s.

Part IV: Modern California:.

18. The Second World War.

19. Between Liberation & Oppression: Gay Politics andIdentity.

20. Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and theTwentieth Century.

21. The Long 1950s.

22. Apportionment Politics, 1920-1970.

23. Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the PostwarDecades.

24. At the Center of Indian Country.

25. Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics.

26. A Generation of Leaders, But Not in the Fields.

27. Hollywood Changes Its Script.

Part V: California Prospects in the 21st Century:.

28. Immigration and Race in the 21st Century.

29. Political Prospects in the 21st Century.

30. Environmental Prospects in the 21st Century.

Index

Rezensionen

"This volume of original essays by leading scholars is aninnovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture ofCalifornia." (Native American Encyclopedia, 8January 2014)"This is a useful book. For somebody whose training is in history,like me, there is enough substance in each chapter to make itworthwhile.... Like all Blackwell Companions, this volume ispleasant to use and handle." (Reference Reviews, 2009)"A rich harvest of the New California History, grown to ripenessand diversity in the garden planted by Carey McWilliams and KevinStarr."
-Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine

"In tandem with the emergence of California as a nation-state ofglobal importance, the assessment of California - as place,people, society, culture, and history - has gone into WarpSpeed. Nowhere is this more evident than in this brilliant andeminently useful Starship Enterprise of California studies by anelite crew of Next Generation experts."
-Kevin Starr, University of Southern California

"Like the best of California, the engaging essays collected inthis compendium reveal - and revel in - a history ofimmense diversity and astonishing possibility. More than a"companion," these dazzling essays offer a friendly "field guide"to California's past (and an excellent vantage point from which tocontemplate its present and future)."
-Stephen Aron, UCLA and Autry Institute for the Studyof the American West