Author: August Carl MahrPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Visit of the "Rurik" to San Francisco in 1816
Author: August Carl MahrPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Visit of the "Rurik" to San Francisco in 1816
Author: August C. MahrThrough Alien Eyes
Author: Edward MorninPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2002. North American Studies in 19th-Century German Literature. Vol. 32 General Editor: Jeffrey L. Sammons During the month of October 1816, San Francisco received a visit from the Russian brig Rurik, only the third non-Spanish vessel to call at what was then a small colonial garrison and mission town on the extreme edge of Spanish North America. In this book the author provides English translations of reports of the visit (originally in German and French) by the ship's captain Otto von Kotzebue, naturalist Adelbert von Chamisso, and on-board artist Louis Choris. Eleven illustrations by Choris are also reproduced, including celebrated scenes and portraits of California mission Indians. Edward Mornin provides biographical sketches of the three reporters, a historical account of Rurik's round-the-world voyage, and a critical discussion of the observations of Kotzebue, Chamisso, and Choris, with their ideological and cultural determinants, especially with regard to the Indians under the control of the Spanish missionaries. The book shows how the narrative accounts of Kotzebue, Chamisso, and Choris, together with Choris's graphic record, continue to fascinate not only for their engaging portrayal of San Francisco's early inhabitants and the circumstances of their lives, but as shadow portraits of the reporters themselves and of the European cultures that produced them. Contents: Visit of Russian ship Rurik to San Francisco in 1816 - Translated reports of captain (Otto von Kotzebue), naturalist (Adelbert von Chamisso), and on-board artist (Louis Choris) - Reproductions of illustrations by Choris - Account of Rurik'sround-the-world voyage - Biographical sketches of Kotzebue, Chamisso, and Choris - Discussion of their views on Spanish colonial garrison and mission, mission Indians, soldiers and missionaries - Postcolonial assessment of reports and reporters.
El Presidio de San Francisco
Author: John Phillip LangellierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fortification
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Historic Resource Study, El Presidio de San Francisco
Author: John Phillip LangellierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization
Author: Sherburne F. CookPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520326490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
This Land Was Mexican Once
Author: Linda HeidenreichPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Euro Americans. Napa's history clearly is one of co-existence; yet, its schoolbooks tell a linear story that climaxes with the arrival of Euro Americans. In "This Land was Mexican Once," Linda Heidenreich excavates Napa's subaltern voices and histories to tell a complex, textured local history with important implications for the larger American West, as well. Heidenreich is part of a new generation of scholars who are challenging not only the old, Euro-American depiction of California, but also the linear method of historical storytelling—a method that inevitably favors the last man writing. She first maps the overlapping histories that comprise Napa's past, then examines how the current version came to dominate—or even erase—earlier events. So while history, in Heidenreich's words, may be "the stuff of nation-building," it can also be "the stuff of resistance." Chapters are interspersed with "source breaks"—raw primary sources that speak for themselves and interrupt the linear, Euro-American telling of Napa's history. Such an inclusive approach inherently acknowledges the connections Napa's peoples have to the rest of the region, for the linear history that marginalizes minorities is not unique to Napa. Latinos, for instance, have populated the American West for centuries, and are still shaping its future. In the end, "This Land was Mexican Once" is more than the story of Napa, it is a multidimensional model for reflecting a multicultural past.
Russia in Pacific Waters, 1715-1825
Author: Glynn BarrattPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This is the first study in Russian or Western literature of the rise and fall of Russian naval influence in the North Pacific Ocean from the time of Peter the Great to Tsar Nicholas I. The author deals with a neglected area: inherent tension between Russian naval and mercantile interests and the origins of international rivalry in the North Pacific at large. Barratt shows that Russia's motives for early expeditions to the Pacific were to promote science, exploration, and trade. But when imperialist powers vied for territory and resources in the area, military confrontation became a possibility. .
Journey to the Sun
Author: Gregory OrfaleaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451642725
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest.
Contest for California
Author: Stephen G. HyslopPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
California’s early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was conquered and colonized by successive waves of adventurers and settlers. In Contest for California, award-winning author Stephen G. Hyslop draws on a wide array of primary sources to weave an elegant narrative of this epic struggle for control of the territory that many saw as a beautiful, sprawling land of promise. In vivid detail, Hyslop traces the story of early California from its founding in 1769 by Spanish colonists to its annexation in 1848 by the United States. He describes the motivations and activities of colonizers and colonized alike. Using eyewitness accounts, he allows all participants—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—to have their say. Soldiers, settlers, missionaries, and merchants testify to the heroic and commonplace, the colorful and tragic, in California’s pre-American history. Even as he acknowledges the dark side of this story, Hyslop avoids a simplistic perspective. Moving beyond the polarities that have marked late-twentieth-century California historiography, he offers nuanced portraits of such controversial figures as Junípero Serra and treats the Californios and their distinctive Hispanic culture with a respect lacking in earlier histories. Attentive to tensions within the invading groups—priests and the military during the Spanish era, merchants and settlers during the American era—he also never loses sight of their impact on the original inhabitants of the region: California’s Native peoples. He also recounts the journeys of colonists from Russia, England, and other countries who influenced the development of California as it passed from the hands of Spaniards and Mexicans to Americans. Exhaustively researched yet concise, this book offers a much-needed alternative history of early California and its evolution from Spanish colony to American territory.