Author: Benjamin HayesPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258207168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes 1849-1875
Author: Benjamin HayesPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258207168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875
Author: Benjamin Ignatius HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Colonial Intimacies
Author: Erika PerezPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806160829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
“A gem of historical scholarship!”—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America How do intimate relationships reveal, reflect, enable, or enact the social and political dimensions of imperial projects? In particular, how did colonial relations in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century southern California implicate sexuality, marriage, and kinship ties? In Colonial Intimacies, Erika Pérez probes everyday relationships, encounters, and interactions to show how intimate choices about marriage, social networks, and godparentage were embedded in larger geopolitical concerns. Her work reveals, through the lens of social and familial intimacy, subtle tools of conquest and acts of resistance and accommodation among indigenous peoples, Spanish-Mexican settlers, Franciscan missionaries, and European and Anglo-American merchants. Concentrating on Catholic conversion, compadrazgo (baptismal sponsorship that often forged interethnic relations), and intermarriage, Pérez examines the ways indigenous and Spanish-Mexican women helped shape communities and sustained their culture. She uncovers an unexpected fluidity in Californian society—shaped by race, class, gender, religion, and kinship—that persisted through the colony’s transition from Spanish to American rule. Colonial Intimacies focuses on the offspring of interethnic couples and their strategies for coping with colonial rule and negotiating racial and cultural identities. Pérez argues that these sons and daughters experienced conquest in different ways tied directly to their gender, and in turn faced different options in terms of marriage partners, economic status, social networks, and expressions of biculturality. Offering a more nuanced understanding of the colonial experience, Colonial Intimacies exposes the personal ties that undergirded imperial relationships in Spanish, Mexican, and early American California.
Water and the California Dream
Author: David CarlePublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619026171
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altering both urban and rural communities. The key to this transformation has been expanded access to water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. "Whoever brings the water, brings the people," wrote engineer William Mulholland, under whose leadership the process of growth through irrigation began. Now, using first–person voices of Californians to reveal the resulting changes, author David Carle concludes that it may be time to stop drowning the California dream of the good life with imported water. Using oral histories, contemporary newspaper articles, and autobiographies, Carle explores the historic changes in California, showing how imported water has shaped the pattern of population growth in the state. Because water choices remain the primary tool for shaping California's future, Carle also argues that it is possible to improve both the state's damaged environment and the quality of life if Californians will step out of this historic pattern and embrace limited water supplies as a fact of life in this naturally dry region.
American Diaries
Author: William MatthewsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Author: Kevin StarrPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195042336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.
Before L.A.
Author: David Samuel Torres-RouffPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300156626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today. It is a fascinating study of how an innovative intercultural community developed along racial lines, and how immigrants from the United States engineered a profound shift in civic ideals and the physical environment, creating a social and spatial rupture that endures to this day.
California Historical Society Quarterly
Author: California Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Californios, Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West
Author: Andrew GibbPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809336472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Dramaturgical notes 1 -- Curtain raiser -- The angels -- Collaborations -- A question of casting -- Dress rehearsal
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