Competing Visions A History of California

by Cherny, Robert; Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen; Griswold delCastillo, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780395959640
• ISBN10: 0395959640
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-18
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Competing Visions: A History of California uses the stories of the people of California to create a chronological narrative from the geological formation of its landscape to the watershed 2003 recall election. In 13 concise chapters, Competing Visions incorporates the social, environmental, political, cultural, and economic diversity of the state into a coherent chronological narrative. Each chapter begins with a brief biography of a person who reflects the major issues and trends of that era and all of the people who have shaped California are given a voice through three themes woven into the text. California within a regional, national, and international context. California's location, geography, and environment have internally shaped its history while simultaneously inviting unique outside influences beginning with the complex trade networks of its first peoples to its current role in the Pacific Rim economy. California's cultural richness and diversity. From the first human civilizations in California, it has been a land filled with a range of cultures, languages, and traditions. The variety of groups that have shaped California history are all given voices in this text, and the influences Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, Native Americans, and women are reflected as agents of change. Competing visions of California. California history has been marked by epic struggles over the geographic and political, landscape. The text uses these competing visions to illustrate how the "California Dream" has meant something unique to all those who have pursued it. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	xii
California's Origins: The Land and the People, Before Spanish Settlement	1	(28)
Diversity: Origins of California and Its Native Peoples	3	(6)
Cycles of Life: The Food Quest, Spirituality, and Rituals	9	(9)
The Food Quest	9	(4)
Spirituality	13	(2)
Rituals	15	(3)
A Closer Look: Six Regional Peoples	18	(7)
The Gabrielino/Tongva	18	(2)
The Chumash	20	(1)
The Costanoans	21	(2)
The Miwoks and Yokuts	23	(1)
The Shastans	24	(1)
Significance: The Importance of California Natives and Other North American Native Peoples in Non-Indian History	25	(2)
Summary	27	(2)
The Spanish Colonization of California, 1769--1821	29	(32)
The Spanish Conquest and Empire	32	(6)
Spain's Exploration of the Californias	33	(2)
Early Maritime Exploration and Encounters	35	(2)
The First California Colony	37	(1)
Demographic and Ethnic Growth of California	38	(9)
The Missions	40	(3)
Neophyte Resistance	43	(2)
Evaluation of the California Missions	45	(2)
Establishing Presidios and Pueblos	47	(3)
Gender Relations in Spanish California	50	(3)
Spanish Californian Culture	52	(1)
Political Developments in Spanish California	53	(5)
The Wars of Independence in New Spain	55	(1)
Foreign Interest in Spanish California	56	(2)
The Importance of the Spanish Era in California	58	(3)
Mexican California, 1821--1846	61	(31)
A New Political Order	64	(11)
Early Self-Government: Sola and Arguello	64	(1)
The Governorship of Jose Maria Echeandia	65	(1)
Rebellion Against Centralism: Governor Victoria	66	(3)
Secularization of the Missions: Jose Figueroa	69	(1)
Rebellion, Revolution, and Home Rule	70	(3)
Micheltorena and the Catesby Jones Affair	73	(2)
The Rise of the Ranchos	75	(3)
Environmental Changes	77	(1)
Social Relations in Mexican California	78	(11)
The Growth of Town Governments	78	(1)
Californianas: Mexican Californian Women	79	(3)
Mexican-Indian Relations	82	(1)
Immigrants and Foreigners	83	(6)
California and the World	89	(1)
Summary	90	(2)
War, Conquest, and Gold: The American Era Begins, 1845--1855	92	(32)
The War Between the United States and Mexico	95	(10)
Manifest Destiny	96	(1)
Fremont and the Bear Flaggers	97	(2)
Occupation and Resistance	99	(3)
California Indians and the War	102	(1)
Peace	103	(1)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	104	(1)
The Divided Mind of the Californios	105	(1)
The Gold Rush	105	(13)
Gold! The Discovery of 1848	106	(2)
The Argonauts	108	(5)
Camp Life	113	(2)
Nativism and Racism	115	(2)
The Legendary Life of Joaquin Murrieta	117	(1)
California Transformed	118	(4)
Conquest of the Californios	118	(1)
Conquest of the Indians	118	(1)
Economic Transformation	119	(1)
The Golden State	119	(3)
A New Direction	122	(2)
California and the Crisis of the Union, 1850--1870	124	(35)
Crisis and Conflict in the 1850s	127	(9)
The Compromise of 1850	127	(1)
San Francisco's Crisis of Political Legitimacy: Vigilantism in the 1850s	128	(3)
Violence and Displacement: California Indians in the 1850s	131	(2)
The Politics of Land and Culture	133	(3)
Californians and the Crisis of the Union	136	(6)
Fighting Slavery in California	136	(2)
Sectional Issues and California Politics	138	(2)
California and Civil War	140	(2)
Reconstruction and New Understandings of Citizenship	142	(1)
Economic Growth in a Time of National Crisis	142	(7)
The Transformation of Mining	142	(2)
Economic Diversification	144	(1)
Transportation	145	(1)
Tying Together the Union with Iron	146	(3)
New Social and Cultural Patterns	149	(7)
Gender Roles and New Social Institutions	149	(3)
The Growth of Religious Toleration	152	(2)
Writing the Gold Rush	154	(2)
Summary	156	(3)
California in the Gilded Age, 1870--1900	159	(35)
The Economic Transformation of California and the West	162	(12)
Railroad Expansion	162	(3)
Mining and Finance	165	(2)
Agriculture	167	(2)
Water	169	(1)
Rise of Organized Labor	170	(2)
San Francisco: Metropolis of the West	172	(2)
New Social Patterns	174	(8)
Education	174	(1)
Changing Gender Roles	175	(2)
California Indians	177	(1)
Changing Patterns of Ethnicity	178	(4)
Politics	182	(7)
Political Discontent in the 1870s	183	(1)
The Second Constitutional Convention, 1878	184	(1)
Politics in the 1880s	185	(2)
Political Realignment in the 1890s	187	(2)
California and the World: War with Spain and Acquisition of the Philippines	189	(1)
Cultural Expression	189	(2)
Summary	191	(3)
California in the Progressive Era, 1895--1920	194	(37)
The Origins of California Progressivism	197	(6)
The Many Shapes of Progressivism	197	(1)
Municipal Reform: Los Angeles	198	(1)
Municipal Reform: San Francisco	199	(1)
Organized Labor in the Progressive Era	200	(2)
Efforts to Reform State Government Before 1910	202	(1)
Social and Economic Change in the Progressive Era	203	(12)
Immigration and Ethnic Relations	204	(4)
Economic Changes	208	(2)
Earthquake and Fire in 1906	210	(2)
Water Wars	212	(3)
California in the World Economy	215	(1)
California Progressivism, 1910--1920	215	(8)
Hiram Johnson and the Victory of the Progressives, 1910--1911	216	(1)
California Progressives and the Presidential Election of 1912	217	(1)
Radicals in a Progressive Era	218	(3)
A Second Flood of Reform, 1913	221	(2)
The Progressive Tide Recedes, 1914--1920	223	(1)
Californians in a World of Revolutions and War	223	(4)
Californians and the Mexican Revolution	224	(1)
War in Europe and Conflict at Home	224	(1)
Californians Go to War	225	(1)
Peace and the Backwash of War	226	(1)
The Meaning of Progressivism for Californians	227	(1)
Summary	228	(3)
California Between the Wars, 1919--1941	231	(35)
The Rise of Los Angeles: Twentieth-Century Metropolis	235	(3)
The Economic Basis for Growth	235	(2)
The Automobile and the Growth of Southern California	237	(1)
Prosperity Decade: The 1920s	238	(9)
Politics in a Time of Prosperity	239	(2)
New Economic Patterns	241	(2)
New Social Patterns	243	(2)
Cultural Expression	245	(2)
Depression Decade: The 1930s	247	(15)
Impact of the Great Depression	248	(3)
Labor Conflict	251	(3)
Federal Politics: The Impact of the New Deal	254	(2)
State Politics: The Rise of the Democrats	256	(3)
Cultural Expression During the Depression Decade	259	(2)
California on the Eve of War	261	(1)
Summary	262	(4)
World War II and the Great Transformation	266	(35)
Economic Expansion	269	(5)
Overview of the War's Economic Impact	269	(1)
The Aircraft Industry	270	(1)
Shipbuilding	271	(1)
Agriculture	272	(1)
Other Industry	273	(1)
Japanese Relocation and Internment	274	(7)
The Unfolding Tragedy	274	(3)
Relocation and Internment	277	(4)
Population Growth and Diversity	281	(12)
Black Migration	283	(3)
New Challenges and Opportunities	286	(5)
Shifting Gender Relations	291	(2)
Daily Life and Culture	293	(3)
Wartime Challenges	293	(1)
Entertainment	294	(2)
Political Transformation	296	(3)
Change from the Grassroots	296	(1)
Change at the Top	297	(2)
Summary	299	(2)
Postwar California: Prosperity and Discontent in the Golden State	301	(36)
Unbridled Growth	304	(10)
Industrial Growth and Organized Labor	304	(3)
Education	307	(1)
Population and Suburban Growth	308	(2)
Transportation, Energy, Water Resources, and Environmental Pollution	310	(4)
Postwar Politics	314	(9)
California's Red Scare	315	(3)
Warren and Knight	318	(1)
Edmund G. Brown	319	(3)
Liberalism at the Municipal Level	322	(1)
Social and Cultural Dissent	323	(12)
Diversity and Inequality	324	(7)
Student Activism	331	(2)
Cultural Developments	333	(2)
Summary	335	(2)
Contested Visions: Activism and Politics, 1964--1970	337	(36)
Seeds of Change	341	(16)
From Civil Rights to Civil Unrest	341	(4)
Black Power	345	(4)
Justice in the Fields	349	(3)
The Antiwar Movement and the Counterculture	352	(5)
The Movement Expands	357	(10)
The Chicano Movement	357	(4)
Taking the Rock	361	(2)
Change and Activism Along the Pacific Rim	363	(2)
Emerging Feminist and Gay Rights Movements	365	(2)
Politics in the Age of Dissent	367	(4)
The Decline of Liberalism	367	(1)
Reagan as Governor	368	(3)
Summary	371	(2)
Era of Limits	373	(36)
The Legacy of the Sixties	377	(14)
Feminism, Disability Rights, and Gay Pride	377	(6)
Multiethnic Politics, Economies, and Culture	383	(8)
Economic Changes and Environmental Constraints	391	(10)
The Economy	391	(3)
Environmental Activism and Constraints	394	(7)
Politics in the Era of Limits	401	(6)
Edmund G. Brown, Jr.	401	(3)
Deukmejian	404	(3)
Summary	407	(2)
California Enters the New Millennium	409	(40)
A New Kind of California	412	(7)
The Los Angeles Riots and the O.J. Simpson Trial	412	(2)
The Rise of Latino California	414	(3)
Changing Ethnic Demographics	417	(2)
The Economy	419	(8)
From Recession to Boom	419	(2)
An Economy for the New Millennium?	421	(3)
Going Global	424	(1)
A Redistribution of Income?	425	(2)
The Challenges of Growth	427	(5)
Education	427	(2)
Health Care and Housing	429	(2)
Transportation and Energy	431	(1)
California and September 11, 2001	432	(1)
Politics in the New California	432	(8)
Government by Initiative	433	(3)
The Politics of the Center I: The Governorship of Peter Wilson	436	(1)
The Politics of the Center II: The Governorship of Gray Davis	437	(2)
The Politics of the Center III: The Governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger	439	(1)
Religion, Culture, and the Arts	440	(5)
Spirituality in the Midst of Materialism	441	(1)
Fitness, Health, and Entertainment	442	(1)
Cultural Expression	443	(2)
The California Dream in the Twenty-First Century	445	(1)
Summary	446	(3)
Governors of California: 1767 to Present	449	(2)
Glossary of Spanish Terms	451	(1)
Photo Credits	452
Index	1