Pacific Eldorado a history of greater California
Osborne's work is the first history text to explore the sweep of California's past in relationship to its connections within the maritime world of the Pacific Basin. Presents a provocative and original interpretation of the entire span of California history Reveals how the area's Paci...
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Chichester
Wiley
2013
Wiley-Blackwell John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated |
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| ISBN: | 1405194537, 9781405194532, 1405194545, 9781405194549 |
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Table of Contents:
- The "Governator:" Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Infrastructure Matters: Schools, Transportation, Health Care, and Prisons -- The High-Stakes Gubernatorial Election of 2010 -- An Economic and Political Colossus -- Major Environmental and Energy Challenges -- The Pacific, the U.S Military, and California -- Still the Pacific Eldorado -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- Appendix: Governors of California, 1768-2012 -- The Spanish Period in Alta California (1767-1821) -- The Mexican Period in Alta California (1821-1846) -- American Military Governors (1846-1849) -- The American Period (1849-2012) and Party Affiliation -- Index
- The World Rushed In -- Life in the Diggings -- The Gold Rush's International Economic Impacts -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 5: National Crisis, Statehood, and Social Change -- Timeline -- 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 -- Pacific Profile: Norman Asing, Chinese American Restaurateur -- Californios and Other Spanish-Speakers -- Indians: A People under Siege -- African Americans: Up from Bondage -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 6: Pacific-Bound Rails, Hard Times, and Chinese Exclusion -- Timeline -- 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 -- Pacific Profile: Seafaring Journalist Charles Nordhoff -- Transpacific Steamers -- Depression and the Anti-Chinese Movement -- The Constitution of 1879 -- Halting Chinese Immigration -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 7: Eldorado's Economic and Cultural Growth -- Timeline -- Water, Land, and Rural Development -- Commercial Agriculture -- Black and White Gold -- Interurban Railways and Southern California's Rise -- California's Maritime Economy -- Pacific Profile: David Laamea Kalakaua, King of Hawai'i and Visitor -- California and the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War -- A Cosmopolitan Culture -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 8: Anti-Railroad Politics, Municipal Graft, and Labor Struggles -- Timeline -- The Battle of Mussel Slough -- An Angry Widow Sues: The Colton Letters -- Pacific Gateway: Locating a Harbor in Los Angeles
- Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Beginnings: From Fire and Ice to Indian Homeland -- Timeline -- Landforms -- Climates -- Plants and Animals -- First Peoples and Their New Homeland -- Tribal and Linguistic Groupings -- Material Culture -- Religion and Social Practices -- Pacific Profile: Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber -- The Chumash: Pacific Coast Mariners and Traders -- Other Possible Early Voyagers to California -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 2: Spain's Greater California Coast -- Timeline -- 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 -- Pacific Profile: Alejandro Malaspina, Mariner-Explorer -- The Transpacific Fur Trade -- Hippolyte de Bouchard's Pirate Raids -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 3: A Globally Connected Mexican Province -- Timeline -- Mexico's Misrule of California -- Secularization of the Missions -- Hides, Tallow, and Rancho Society -- Fur Trappers -- Early Settlers and Overland Emigrants -- Pacific Profile: Alpheus B. Thompson, China Trader -- "Thar She Blows:" New England Whalers -- The Charles Wilkes Pacific Expedition -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 4: War and Gold: America's West Coast Eldorado -- Timeline -- 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 -- Pacific Profile: William H. Aspinwall, President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
- Opportunities and Prejudice: Women and Minorities -- Japanese Imprisonment -- Pacific Profile: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Manzanar Inmate and Writer -- The Postwar Military-Industrial Complex and International Relations -- Population Growth, Housing, and Discrimination -- Green Gold: Agribusiness and Labor -- Governor Earl Warren: Progressive Republican -- Richard Nixon and the Anti-Communist Crusade -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 12: Liberalism at High Tide -- Timeline -- Prosperity, Suburbanization, and Consumerism -- Entertainment Media, Sports, and Amusement Parks -- The San Francisco Renaissance and the Arts -- Politics: Goodwin Knight, Pat Brown, and Reforming Government Operations -- Enhancing the Super State: Water, Transit, and Universities -- Students in Dissent, Campuses in Revolt -- Pacific Profile: S.I. Hayakawa, San Francisco State College President -- Minorities and Women -- Coastal Counterculture in the 1960s -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 13: "Gold Coast" Conservatism and the Politics of Limits -- Timeline -- From Ultra-Right-Wingers to Mainstream Suburban Warriors -- Ronald Reagan: The "Cowboy" Governor -- Governor Jerry Brown: The Zen of Politics and Frugality -- Crime and Racial Tensions -- Business and Labor -- Pacific Profile: Jerry Yang, Co-founder and CEO, Yahoo! Inc. -- Protecting the Environment and Supplying Energy -- Governor George Deukmejian's Right Turn -- Voter Resentment, Term Limits, and Wedge Politics -- Governor Pete Wilson and a Roller-Coaster Economy -- Architecture and Fine Arts, Sports, and Entertainment -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 14: The Ongoing Pacific Shift -- Timeline -- Immigration, Diversity, and the Politics of Multiculturalism -- Pacific Profile: Novelist Isabel Allende -- Governor Gray Davis: An Able Moderate under Fire
- Pacific Profile: Phineas Banning, Port of Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Promoter -- Debt Dodging Denounced -- The Southern Pacific Political Machine -- The "Queen City of the Pacific:" Boss Ruef's San Francisco -- Foiled Reform: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Graft Trials -- Maritime and Factory Labor -- Field Work and the Wheatland Riot -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 9: Governor Hiram Johnson and Pacific-Oriented Progressivism -- Timeline -- The Beginnings of Reform -- An "Aggressive Advocate" and the 1910 Election -- Regulating the Economy -- Democratizing Politics, Subsidizing Education -- Women's Suffrage and Public Morals -- Water: Cities in a State of Thirst -- Pacific Profile: George Freeth, Southern California Surfer Extraordinaire -- San Francisco, Transpacific Racial Tensions, and Angel Island -- African Americans, Hispanics and Filipinos, Sikhs, and Indians -- Maritime Trade and the Panama Pacific Exposition -- The Twilight of Progressivism -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 10: Good Times and Bad in a Pacific Rim Super State -- Timeline -- Mass Entertainment: Hollywood Movies, Pacific Fun Zones, and the Olympics -- Extending California's Water Infrastructure -- Agribusiness and Banking -- The 1920s Oil Boom -- Maritime Enterprises -- Transportation: Automobiles and Airplanes -- Pacific Profile: Charles Kingsford-Smith's Transpacific Flight -- Conservatism Restored -- Religious Awakenings and Developments -- Freedom-Minded and Other Women -- The Great Depression: Strikes and Panaceas -- Cultural Expression of a High Order -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Further Readings -- 11: America's Pacific Bulwark: World War II and Its Aftermath -- Timeline -- Military Installations: Forts, Naval Bases, and Airfields -- The Wages of War: Shipyards, Aircraft Plants, and Universities
- 10 Good Times and Bad in a Pacific Rim Super State -- Mass Entertainment: Hollywood Movies, Pacific Fun Zones, and the Olympics -- Extending California's Water Infrastructure -- Agribusiness and Banking -- The 1920s Oil Boom -- Maritime Enterprises -- Transportation: Automobiles and Airplanes -- Conservatism Restored -- Religious Awakenings and Developments -- Freedom-Minded and Other Women -- The Great Depression: Strikes and Panaceas -- Cultural Expression of a High Order -- SUMMARY -- 11 America's Pacific Bulwark: World War II and Its Aftermath -- Military Installations: Forts, Naval Bases, and Airfields -- The Wages of War: Shipyards, Aircraft Plants, and Universities -- Opportunities and Prejudice: Women and Minorities -- Japanese Imprisonment -- The Postwar Military-Industrial Complex and International Relations -- Population Growth, Housing, and Discrimination -- Green Gold: Agribusiness and Labor -- Governor Earl Warren: Progressive Republican -- Richard Nixon and the Anti-Communist Crusade -- SUMMARY -- 12 Liberalism at High Tide -- Prosperity, Suburbanization, and Consumerism -- Entertainment Media, Sports, and Amusement Parks -- The San Francisco Renaissance and the Arts -- Politics: Goodwin Knight, Pat Brown, and Reforming Government Operations -- Enhancing the Super State: Water, Transit, and Universities -- Students in Dissent, Campuses in Revolt -- Minorities and Women -- Coastal Counterculture in the 1960s -- SUMMARY -- 13 "Gold Coast" Conservatism and the Politics of Limits -- From Ultra-Right-Wingers to Mainstream Suburban Warriors -- Ronald Reagan: The "Cowboy" Governor -- Governor Jerry Brown: The Zen of Politics and Frugality -- Crime and Racial Tensions -- Business and Labor -- Protecting the Environment and Supplying Energy -- Governor George Deukmejian's Right Turn -- Voter Resentment, Term Limits, and Wedge Politics
- Governor Pete Wilson and a Roller-Coaster Economy -- Architecture and Fine Arts, Sports, and Entertainment -- SUMMARY -- 14 The Ongoing Pacific Shift -- Immigration, Diversity, and the Politics of Multiculturalism -- Governor Gray Davis: An Able Moderate under Fire -- The "Governator:" Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Infrastructure Matters: Schools, Transportation, Health Care, and Prisons -- The High-Stakes Gubernatorial Election of 2010 -- An Economic and Political Colossus -- Major Environmental and Energy Challenges -- The Pacific, the U.S Military, and California -- Still the Pacific Eldorado -- SUMMARY -- Appendix: Governors of California, 1768-2012 -- The Spanish Period in Alta California (1767-1821) -- The Mexican Period in Alta California (1821-1846) -- American Military Governors (1846-1849) -- The American Period (1849-2012) and Party Affiliation -- Index
- 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 -- The Southern Pacific Political Machine -- The "Queen City of the Pacific:" Boss Ruef's San Francisco -- Foiled Reform: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Graft Trials -- Maritime and Factory Labor -- Field Work and the Wheatland Riot -- SUMMARY -- 9 Governor Hiram Johnson and Pacific-Oriented Progressivism -- The Beginnings of Reform -- An "Aggressive Advocate" and the 1910 Election -- Regulating the Economy -- Democratizing Politics, Subsidizing Education -- Women's Suffrage and Public Morals -- Water: Cities in a State of Thirst -- San Francisco, Transpacific Racial Tensions, and Angel Island -- African Americans, Hispanics and Filipinos, Sikhs, and Indians -- Maritime Trade and the Panama Pacific Exposition -- The Twilight of Progressivism -- SUMMARY