Pacific Eldorado : A History of Greater California.

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.

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.

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