Glenna Matthews

The Golden State in the Civil War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Breaks new ground in its coverage of California during the Civil War era, in terms of geography and social groupings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781107639218
• ISBN-10: 1107639212
• Artikelnr.: 35062669

Autorenporträt

Glenna Matthews holds a PhD in American History from Stanford University. She has been an associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University, and a visiting associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; University of California at Los Angeles; University of California at Davis; and University of California at Irvine. Her books include Just a Housewife; The Rise of Public Woman; American Women's History: A Student Companion; and Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Golden State in the 1850s
2. Thomas Starr King and the Massachusetts background for his California activism
3. Towards a political realignment
4. The first years of war
5. The military front
6. The cultural front
7. A new role for California gold/a see-saw federal-state relationship
8. 'Coppery' California
9. Californians of color
10. A tragic death and its aftermath.