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.

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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

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 Deal, No Deal: The 1930s 292
Rick Wartzman
Part IV Modern California 309
18. World War II 311
Arthur Verge
19. Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity 322
Daniel Hurewitz
20. Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and the Twentieth Century
339
Kevin Allen Leonard
21. The Long 1950s 358
Shana Bernstein
22. Apportionment Politics, 1920-70 375
Douglas Smith
23. Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the Postwar Decades 391
Kirse Granat May
24. At the Center of Indian Country 405
Nicolas G. Rosenthal
25. Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics 416
Josh Sides
26. A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacy of Cesar
Chavez 428
Miriam Pawel
27. Hollywood Changes its Script 443
John Horn
Part V California Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 453
28. Immigration and Race in the Twenty-first Century 455
Bill Ong Hing
29. Political Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 472
Raphael J. Sonenshein
30. Environmental Prospects in the Twenty-first Century 483
Jon Christensen
Index 499

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