The Elusive Eden: A New History of California

by Rice, Richard; Bullough, William; Orsi, Richard; Irwin, Mary Ann

• ISBN13: 9780073385563
• ISBN10: 0073385565
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-13
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

The Elusive Edencharts the historical development of California, beginning with landscape and climate and the development of Native cultures, and continues through the census of 2010 and the election of Jerry Brown to his third term as governor. It portrays a land of remarkable richness and complexity, settled by waves of people with diverse cultures from around the world. Organized in ten parts, each part develops a major theme or issue in the chronological development of the state. The first chapter in Parts II through IX is an in-depth narrative spotlight of an individual or group at a critical moment of change. In Parts I and X, the first chapter helps to place California's whole story in context.

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Preface

About the Authors

PART I: PROLOGUE

1: CALIFORNIANS AND THEIR HISTORY: MYTHS AND REALITIES

2: THE NATURAL SETTING

3: THE NATIVE PEOPLES

PART II: EUROPEANS AND INDIANS: THE CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCE

4: ESTANISLAO'S REBELLION, 1829

5: EXPLORERS AND INDIANS

6: SPANISH CALIFORNIA

PART III: THE PASTORAL ERA

7: THE BEAR FLAG REVOLT

8: MEXICAN CALIFORNIA, 1821-1848

9: FOREIGN PENETRATION OF CALFORNIA

PART IV: GOLD AND THE AMERICANIZATION OF CALIFORNIA

10: DAME SHIRLEY: A YANKEE LADY IN THE CALIFORNIA MINES

11: THE NEW EL DORADO

12: THE THIRTY-FIRST STATE

PART V: THE RAILROAD ERA

13: CONFRONTATION AT MUSSEL SLOUGH, 1880

14: THE COMING OF THE RAILROAD

15: CALIFORNIA'S RAILWAY ERA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL UNREST

PART VI: CALIFORNIA AND THE NATION, 1880-1920

16: SAN FRANCISCO'S BLIND BOSS

17: BEGINNINGS OF MODERN CALIFORNIA

18: PROGRESSIVE CALIFORNIA

PART VII: CALIFORNIA BETWEEN THE WARS, 1920-1940

19: SUPER SISTER: AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON IN LOS ANGELES

20: PROSPERITY AND THE RISE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

21: THE DEPRESSION DECADE

PART VIII: WORLD WAR II AND POSTWAR EXPANSION

22: A QUESTION OF LOYALTY

23: WORLD WAR II: THE BEGINNING OF AN ERA

24: AMAZING GROWTH: CALIFORNIA AFTER WORLD WAR II

PART IX: THE 1960S AND AFTER

25: PROLOGUES TO VIOLENCE: GENESIS OF A GHETTO

26: DREAMS DEFERRED: THE 1960's

27: ERAS OF LIMITS: REAGAN, BROWN, AND DEUKMEJIAN

PART X: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY: CRISIS IN THE MOST POPULOUS STATE

28: CALIFORNIA: EDEN OR WASTELAND?

29: FIN DE SIECLÈ CALIFORNIA

30: CALIFORNIA CONFRONTS THE NEW MILLENIUM

GLOSSARY

SUGGESTED READINGS

INDEX