Pacific Eldorado a history of greater California
Title:
Pacific Eldorado a history of greater California
Author:
Osborne, Thomas J., 1942-
ISBN:
9781118292174
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Publication Information:
Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Physical Description:
xxii, 412 p. : ill., maps.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Beginnings: From Fire and Ice to Indian Homeland 2. Spain's Greater California Coast 3. A Globally Connected Mexican Province 4. War and Gold: America's West Coast Eldorado 5. National Crisis, Statehood, and Social Change 6. Pacific-bound Rails, Hard Times, and Chinese Exclusion 7. Eldorado's Economic and Cultural Growth 8. Anti-Railroad Politics, Municipal Graft, and Labor Struggles 9. Governor Hiram Johnson and the Progressive Movement 10. Good Times and Bad: The Interwar Years 11. America's Pacific Bulwark: WW II and Its Aftermath 12. Liberalism at High Tide 13. The Conservative Backlash and the Politics of Limits 14. The Ongoing Pacific Shift Appendixes: A Chronology of California History; Governors of California Index.
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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