Before Gold: California Under Spain and Mexico Series – serie
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Beyond the Devil's Road Volume 8
Francisco Garcés and the Spanish Encounter with the American Southwest
Av Jeremy Beer
Inbunden, 2024
486 kr
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The explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to California, produced new knowledge of unmapped terrain and unknown peoples, and revived dreams of Spanish imperial expansion. Beyond the …
Californio Portraits
Baja California's Vanishing Culture
Inbunden, 2015
413 kr
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First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby's Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios' contact with the outside world and profoundly …
Contest for California
From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest
Häftad, 2019
297 kr
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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 …
Junipero Serra
California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary
Av Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M Senkewicz
Häftad, 2020
348 kr
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Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713-1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie …
Vineyards and Vaqueros
Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877
Häftad, 2020
297 kr
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Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los Angeles region. This first volume in the new series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico explores for the first time Native contributions to early Southern California. Opening with a survey of the economic dimension of …
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California
Av Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M. Senkewicz
Inbunden, 2023
529 kr
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California. In 1874–75, Vallejo, working with historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, composed a …
Recuerdos
Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849 (2 Volume Set)
Av Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Rose Marie Beebe
Inbunden, 2023
1731 kr
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A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well—a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English …
Californio Portraits
Baja California's Vanishing Culture
Häftad, 2023
254 kr
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First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly …
Write Long and Beautiful Letters Volume 9
The Vallejos' Californio Correspondence, 1846-1888
Inbunden, 2025
541 kr
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The experiences of Mexicans who were living in California when it was annexed by the United States is a crucial element of the history of the American Southwest. These Californios, as they called themselves, made California diverse and multicultural from the moment it became part of the United …
Dancing with Manifest Destiny Volume 10
Elite Men of Color and the Making of American Los Angeles
Inbunden, 2026
529 kr
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From the Mexican American War and through the Civil War Era, Mexican and US social hierarchies collided in Southern California, transforming the character of Los Angeles from Mexican-Californian to "American." Influencing this transition in unexpected ways were three men of color: a Californio …
Colonial Intimacies Volume 5
Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885
Av Erika Perez
Häftad, 2027
338 kr
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“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 …
Contest for California
From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest
Inbunden, 2012
471 kr
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Colonial Intimacies
Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885
Av Erika Perez
Inbunden, 2018
524 kr
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A gem of historical scholarship!"" - Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century AmericaHow do intimate relationships reveal, reflect, enable, or enact the social and political dimensions of imperial projects? In particular, how did colonial relations in …
Vineyards and Vaqueros
Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877
Inbunden, 2010
524 kr
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