Author: Favon Dean Atherton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
California Diary, 1836-1839
Author: Favon Dean Atherton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Indians of California
Author: James J. Rawls
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Describes changing white views of native California Indians as Spanish victims, useful laborers, and, finally, obstacles to white expansion
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Describes changing white views of native California Indians as Spanish victims, useful laborers, and, finally, obstacles to white expansion
The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton, 1836-1839
Author: Faxon Dean Atherton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Eyewitness account from a twenty-one year old Bostonite of his hide and tallow trading days in Mexican California.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Eyewitness account from a twenty-one year old Bostonite of his hide and tallow trading days in Mexican California.
John Sutter
Author: Albert L. Hurtado
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Re-examines the life of John Sutter in the context of America's rush for westward expansion in a fully documented account of the Swiss expatriate and would-be empire builder and his times.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Re-examines the life of John Sutter in the context of America's rush for westward expansion in a fully documented account of the Swiss expatriate and would-be empire builder and his times.
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195016440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195016440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.
California Historical Society Quarterly
Author: California Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
East of the Gabilans
Author: Marjorie Pierce
Publisher: Great West Books
ISBN: 9780934136112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
For more than two centuries the peaceful grasslands east of the Gabilans in San Benito and south Santa Clara counties have captivated Californians. East of the Gabilans is a unique history of this special land.Here is the record of the Spanish and Mexican land grants, the ranchos of pre-American California, the lives of the Spanish and Mexicans, and the advent of the Americans in the 1840s and 1850s -- the Castros, the Breens, the towns of San Juan Bautista, Hollister, Gilroy, and Tres Pinos, and Henry Miller, the Cattle King,
Publisher: Great West Books
ISBN: 9780934136112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
For more than two centuries the peaceful grasslands east of the Gabilans in San Benito and south Santa Clara counties have captivated Californians. East of the Gabilans is a unique history of this special land.Here is the record of the Spanish and Mexican land grants, the ranchos of pre-American California, the lives of the Spanish and Mexicans, and the advent of the Americans in the 1840s and 1850s -- the Castros, the Breens, the towns of San Juan Bautista, Hollister, Gilroy, and Tres Pinos, and Henry Miller, the Cattle King,
Notes from the California Historical Society
Author: California Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The History of Alta California
Author: Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299149749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299149749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
Married To A Daughter Of The Land
Author: Maria Raquel Casas
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874177146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California. Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian María Raquél Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. She finds that, far from being pawns in a male-dominated society, Californianas of all classes were often active and determined creators of their own destinies, finding ways to choose their mates, to leave unsatisfactory marriages, and to maintain themselves economically. Using a wide range of sources in English and Spanish, Casas unveils a picture of women’s lives in these critical decades of California’s history. She shows how many Spanish-Mexican women negotiated the precarious boundaries of gender and race to choose Euro-American husbands, and what this intermarriage meant to the individuals involved and to the larger multiracial society evolving from California’s rich Hispanic and Indian past. Casas’s discussion ranges from California’s burgeoning economy to the intimacies of private households and ethnically mixed families. Here we discover the actions of real women of all classes as they shaped their own identities. Married to a Daughter of the Land is a significant and fascinating contribution to the history of women in the American West and to our understanding of the complex role of gender, race, and class in the Borderlands of the Southwest.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874177146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California. Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian María Raquél Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. She finds that, far from being pawns in a male-dominated society, Californianas of all classes were often active and determined creators of their own destinies, finding ways to choose their mates, to leave unsatisfactory marriages, and to maintain themselves economically. Using a wide range of sources in English and Spanish, Casas unveils a picture of women’s lives in these critical decades of California’s history. She shows how many Spanish-Mexican women negotiated the precarious boundaries of gender and race to choose Euro-American husbands, and what this intermarriage meant to the individuals involved and to the larger multiracial society evolving from California’s rich Hispanic and Indian past. Casas’s discussion ranges from California’s burgeoning economy to the intimacies of private households and ethnically mixed families. Here we discover the actions of real women of all classes as they shaped their own identities. Married to a Daughter of the Land is a significant and fascinating contribution to the history of women in the American West and to our understanding of the complex role of gender, race, and class in the Borderlands of the Southwest.