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Pacific Eldorado A History of Greater California.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Osborne, Thomas J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Beginnings: From Fire and Ice to Indian Homeland -- Landforms -- Climates -- Plants and Animals -- First Peoples and Their New Homeland -- Tribal and Linguistic Groupings -- Material Culture -- Religion and Social Practices -- The Chumash: Pacific Coast Mariners and Traders -- Other Possible Early Voyagers to California -- SUMMARY -- 2 Spain's Greater California Coast -- A Name, a Dream, a Land -- Cabrillo's Coastal Reconnaissance 
505 8 |a Globalization Begins: The Manila Galleon Trade -- Drake, Nova Albion, and Cermeño -- The Spanish Pacific, Vizcaíno, and Monterey -- Colonizing California: Missions, Indians, and the Sea -- Ranchos, Presidios, and Pueblos -- Gender and Sexuality in a Frontier Society -- The Transpacific Fur Trade -- Hippolyte de Bouchard's Pirate Raids -- SUMMARY -- 3 A Globally Connected Mexican Province -- Mexico's Misrule of California -- Secularization of the Missions -- Hides, Tallow, and Rancho Society -- Fur Trappers -- Early Settlers and Overland Emigrants -- "Thar She Blows:" New England Whalers 
505 8 |a The Charles Wilkes Pacific Expedition -- SUMMARY -- 4 War and Gold: America's West Coast Eldorado -- California and the Pacific Squadron -- Jumping the Gun at Monterey -- Polk, the Pacific, and the Outbreak of War -- California and the Mexican War -- Gold, Ships, and Wagon Trains -- The World Rushed In -- Life in the Diggings -- The Gold Rush's International Economic Impacts -- SUMMARY -- 5 National Crisis, Statehood, and Social Change -- A Constitution, a Legislature, a State -- Land Disputes and Independence Movements -- Vigilance Committees and Untamed Politicians -- Pacific Filibusterers 
505 8 |a California, the Pacific, and the Civil War -- Ocean Crossings: The Chinese on Sea and Land -- Californios and Other Spanish-Speakers -- Indians: A People under Siege -- African Americans: Up from Bondage -- SUMMARY -- 6 Pacific-Bound Rails, Hard Times, and Chinese Exclusion -- A Transcontinental Railroad, California, and Pacific Commerce -- Theodore Judah, the Big Four, and the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 -- Chinese Laborers and the Push Eastward -- The Southern Pacific Railroad and the American West -- Transpacific Steamers -- Depression and the Anti-Chinese Movement -- The Constitution of 1879 
505 8 |a Halting Chinese Immigration -- SUMMARY -- 7 Eldorado's Economic and Cultural Growth -- Water, Land, and Rural Development -- Commercial Agriculture -- Black and White Gold -- Interurban Railways and Southern California's Rise -- California's Maritime Economy -- California and the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War -- A Cosmopolitan Culture -- SUMMARY -- 8 Anti-Railroad Politics, Municipal Graft, and Labor Struggles -- The Battle of Mussel Slough -- An Angry Widow Sues: The Colton Letters -- Pacific Gateway: Locating a Harbor in Los Angeles -- Debt Dodging Denounced 
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