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.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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