California History A Topical Approach

by Bakken, Gordon Morris

• ISBN13: 9780882959719
• ISBN10: 0882959719
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This fresh departure from other California history readers offers students a compilation of engaging essays designed to complement any standard California history textbook or stand on its own as a progressive core text. The work of ten experts, this book presents interpretative examinations of an eclectic range of topics seldom, if ever, considered in standard texts, making it a welcome choice of supplementary reading for the full range of courses in California history.

Author Biography

Gordon Morris Bakken is Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Managing the Gold Rush: California Indians and California History	1	(21)
Lisa E. Emmerich
Wagon Wheels West: Trailblazers and Settlers in Mexican California	22	(20)
Ronald C. Woolsey
L.A. behind Bars, 1847 to 1886: Establishing a Secure Institution	42	(21)
John Joseph Stanley
Weather and History: The Climate of Nineteenth-Century Southern California	63	(21)
Wayne N. Engstrom
The Limits of Patriarchy: The ``Unwritten Law'' in California Legal History	84	(24)
Gordon Morris Bakken
Educational Housekeepers: Female Reformers and the California Americanization Program, 1900--1927	108	(17)
Danelle Moon
Black Faces for Black Audiences: The Lincoln Motion Picture Company of Los Angeles	125	(21)
John Anderson
Stigmatizing Okies	146	(27)
Nancy J. Taniguchi
The Los Angeles Zoot-Suit Riots: Latin America Responds	173	(18)
Ricardo Griswold del Castillo
Vintibusiness California Style: The Wine Industry, 1769 to the Present	191	(20)
Victor W. Geraci
Index	211