California History 8e P - Rolle, Andrew; Verge, Arthur C.
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The new eighth edition of California: A History brings the history of the Golden State completely up to date -from its original inhabitants through the 2012 Elections. Updates include coverage of the connections between Hollywood, social media, and Silicon Valley, and the latest developments relating to California's immigration, energy, environment, and transportation concerns. Ideal for an undergraduate readership in survey courses on California history.
The eighth edition of California: A History covers the entire scope of the history of the Golden State, from before first contact with…mehr

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The new eighth edition of California: A History brings the history of the Golden State completely up to date -from its original inhabitants through the 2012 Elections. Updates include coverage of the connections between Hollywood, social media, and Silicon Valley, and the latest developments relating to California's immigration, energy, environment, and transportation concerns. Ideal for an undergraduate readership in survey courses on California history.
The eighth edition of California: A History covers the entire scope of the history of the Golden State, from before first contact with Europeans through the present; an accessible and compelling narrative that comprises the stories of the many diverse peoples who have called, and currently do call, California home.

Explores the latest developments relating to California's immigration, energy, environment, and transportation concerns
Features concise chapters and a narrative approach along with numerous maps, photographs, and new graphic features to facilitate student comprehension
Offers illuminating insights into the significant events and people that shaped the lengthy and complex history of a state that has become synonymous with the American dream
Includes discussion of recent - and uniquely Californian - social trends connecting Hollywood, social media, and Silicon Valley - and most recently "Silicon Beach"
Autorenporträt
Andrew Rolle is the Cleland Professor Emeritus of History at Occidental College and a Research Scholar at the Huntington Library. He has written more than twenty books on California, the American West, ethics, and psychohistory. One of his books, The Immigrant Upraised (University of Oklahoma, 1970), won the Commonwealth Award for nonfiction. Arthur C. Verge is Professor of History at El Camino College, Torrance, where he was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award. He has written extensively on California culture. Among his works is Paradise Transformed: Los Angeles During the Second World War (Kendall Hunt, 2001).