California : A History.

Intro -- California: A History -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 California's Distinctiveness -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 2 The Native Americans -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 3 Exploring Baja and Alta California -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 4 Colonizers of the Frontier -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 5 Missions, Presidios, and Pueblos -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 6 California and Its Spanish Governors -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 7 Exploration and Foreign Interference -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 8 Arcadia -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 9 Mexican California -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 10 Infiltration and Revolt -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 11 On the Eve of American Rule -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 12 Trappers, Traders, and Homeseekers -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 13 American Conquest -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 14 Gold -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 15 Approaches to Statehood -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 16 Social Ferment -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 17 A New Culture at the Golden Gate -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 18 Post-Gold Rush Commerce -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 19 The Messy Land Problem -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 20 California and the Union -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 21 Ships and Rails -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 22 Agricultural and Urban Growth -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 23 Discrimination and Accommodation -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 24 Crushing or Saving the Indians? -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 25 Labor, the Farmers, and the New Constitution -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 26 California Culture, 1870-1918 -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 27 Progressive Politics -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 28 Material Urban Growth -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 29 Water, Conservation, and Agriculture -- Selected Readings.

Chapter 30 Labor in an Industrial Age -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 31 The Depression Years -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 32 Twentieth-Century Culture -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 33 Sports and Leisure -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 34 Wartime Setbacks and Gains -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 35 World War II and Its Aftermath -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 36 The Beleaguered Sixties -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 37 Environmental Realities -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 38 From Reagan Conservatism to "Governor Moonbeam" -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 39 A New Ethnicity -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 40 From the Great Recession to the Rise of Silicon Beach -- Selected Readings -- Chapter 41 Glowing Past Versus Troubled Future -- Selected Readings -- Appendix The Governors of California -- Index of Authors in Selected Readings -- Subject Index.

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