A Companion to California History

by Deverell, William; Igler, David

• ISBN13: 9781405161831
• ISBN10: 1405161833
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California. Includes 30 essays by leading scholars in the field Essays range widely across perspectives, including political, social, economic, and environmental history Essays with similar approaches are paired and grouped to work as individual pieces and as companions to each other throughout the text Produced in association with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Introductory Essays	p. 1
Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining California through Culture	p. 3
Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State: Defining California through History	p. 22
I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining California through Visual Culture	p. 40
At the Crossroads: Defining California through the Global Economy	p. 75
Early California	p. 97
Junipero Serra across the Generations	p. 99
Alta California, the Pacific, and International Commerce before the Gold Rush	p. 116
Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society	p. 127
Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century	p. 145
Conquest and Statehood	p. 159
The 1850s	p. 161
Nature and Conquest: After the Deluge of '49	p. 175
Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century	p. 192
Transformations in Late Nineteenth-century Rural California	p. 215
Transnational Commercial Orbits	p. 230
Reconsidering Conservation	p. 246
Religion in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 262
Immigration, Race, and the Progressives	p. 278
New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s	p. 292
Modern California	p. 309
World War II	p. 311
Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity	p. 322
Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and the Twentieth Century	p. 339
The Long 1950s	p. 358
Apportionment Politics, 1920-70	p. 375
Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the Postwar Decades	p. 391
At the Center of Indian Country	p. 405
Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics	p. 416
A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez	p. 428
Hollywood Changes its Script	p. 443
California Prospects in the Twenty-first Century	p. 453
Immigration and Race in the Twenty-first Century	p. 455
Political Prospects in the Twenty-first Century	p. 472
Environmental Prospects in the Twenty-first Century	p. 483
Index	p. 499
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