California : an American history
Title:
California : an American history
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
ix, 466 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
A state of diversity -- Little countries -- Big white birds -- China ships -- Extending the Spanish domain -- The wanderer -- What happened to my chickens? -- Undersea people -- The liberal cause -- Members of a single family -- We are free -- Viva California libre -- Wicked foreigners -- Yankee Doodle in Monterey -- Overland to California -- We must be conquerors -- The horrors of war -- Gold from the American river -- A white republic -- Popular justice -- My little sister's heart in my hands -- I'll never be carried into slavery -- Bohemian days -- The terrible seventies -- The cow counties -- A cosmopolitan city -- The remedy is more democracy -- Bounty of the mountains -- Invisible walls of steel -- Human rights and home rule -- The man with the hoe -- End poverty in California -- Unite to win -- Make no small plan for California -- Rebels and forerunners -- A cyclone in a wind tunnel -- A complicated ecosystem -- The impossible dream -- E pluribus unum -- The first step.
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780300225792
Document ID:
SD_ILS:5012452