Western Histories – serie
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12 produkter
Alta California
Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formation
Inbunden, 2010
756 kr
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Spanish California - with its diverse mix of Indians, soldiers, settlers, and missionaries - provides a fascinating site for the investigation of individual and collective identity in colonial America. Through innovative methodologies and extensive archival research, the nine essays in this volume …
American Heathens
Inbunden, 2012
1027 kr
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In the 19th-century debate over whether the United States should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. Racial groups that were perceived as godless and uncivilized were excluded from suffrage, and evangelism among Indians and the Chinese was seen as a …
Blue Sky Metropolis
Inbunden, 2012
315 kr
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Why did Southern California become the aerospace capital of the world? What were the consequences of this development for the region, for the nation, and for aerospace itself? Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and writers, this volume investigates the intersection of …
Father of All
Inbunden, 2010
691 kr
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Historian Louise Pubols presents a rich and nuanced study of a key family in California's past: the de la Guerras of Santa Barbara. Amid sweeping economic and political changes, including the US Mexican War, the de la Guerra family continually adapted and reinvented themselves. This absorbing …
Squatter's Republic
Inbunden, 2013
573 kr
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Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded Age - and the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More specifically, the author considers the land question …
Where Minds and Matters Meet
Inbunden, 2012
1058 kr
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The American West - where such landmarks as the Golden Gate Bridge rival wild landscapes in popularity and iconic significance - has been viewed as a frontier of technological innovation. Where Minds and Matters Meet calls attention to the convergence of Western history and the history of …
Other California
Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands
Inbunden, 2016
624 kr
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The Other California is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse landscape of Baja California. Packed with new and transformative stories, the book examines the interplay of land reform and migratory labor on the peninsula from 1850 to …
Worlds of Junipero Serra
Historical Contexts and Cultural Representations
Inbunden, 2018
882 kr
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In September 2015, Junipero Serra was canonized by Pope Francis in Washington DC against the protest of many Californian Native Americans who criticized his brutal treatment of their ancestors and destruction of their culture. Like most complex historical figures, Junipero Serra has been …
Braided Waters
Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii
Av Wade Graham
Inbunden, 2018
624 kr
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Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to …
Transborder Los Angeles
An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations
Av Yu Tokunaga
Inbunden, 2022
844 kr
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Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles weaves together the narratives of Mexican and Japanese immigrants into a single transpacific history. In this book, Yu Tokunaga moves from international …
Transborder Los Angeles
An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations
Av Yu Tokunaga
Häftad, 2022
271 kr
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Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles weaves together the narratives of Mexican and Japanese immigrants into a single transpacific history. In this book, Yu Tokunaga moves from international …
