California History Sesquicentennial Series – serie
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Contested Eden
California Before the Gold Rush
Av Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Richard J. Orsi
Häftad, 1998
500 kr
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Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars …
Rooted in Barbarous Soil
People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
Av Kevin Starr, Richard J. Orsi
Häftad, 2000
529 kr
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Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did 'civilization' appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass …
Taming the Elephant
Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California
Av John F. Burns, Richard J. Orsi
Häftad, 2003
471 kr
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Taming the Elephant is the last of four volumes in the distinguished California History Sesquicentennial Series, an outstanding compilation of original essays by leading historians and writers. These topical, interrelated volumes reexamine the meaning of the founding of modern California during the …
