The History Of Alta California

Author : Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299149741

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The History of Alta California by Antonio Maria Osio Pdf

Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.

Author : Nick Neely
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640094444

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Alta California by Nick Neely Pdf

This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650–mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco—sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition—nearly 250 years later. Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California today—water, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and development—all of it one step at a time. “Rich in little–known history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Kathleen L. Hull,John G. Douglass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0816554196

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Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California by Kathleen L. Hull,John G. Douglass Pdf

The influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists into Alta California between 1769 and 1834 challenged both Native and non-Native people to reimagine communities not only in different places and spaces but also in novel forms and practices. The contributors to this volume draw on archaeological and historical archival sources to analyze the generative processes and nature of communities of belonging in the face of rapid demographic change and perceived or enforced difference.

Author : Steven W. Hackel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289048

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Alta California by Steven W. Hackel Pdf

"A set of probing and fascinating essays by leading scholars, Alta California illuminates the lives of missionaries and Indians in colonial California. With unprecedented depth and precision, the essays explore the interplay of race and culture among the diverse peoples adapting to the radical transformations of a borderland uneasily shared by natives and colonizers."—Alan Taylor, author of The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution "In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the missions of California and the communities that sprang up around them constituted a unique laboratory where ethnic, imperial, and national identities were molded and transformed. A group of distinguished scholars examine these identities through a variety of sources ranging from mission records and mitochondrial DNA to the historical memory of California's early history."—Andrés Reséndez, author of Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850

Author : Harry W. Crosby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173012043151

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Gateway to Alta California by Harry W. Crosby Pdf

The first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.

Author : Virginia M. Bouvier
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0816524467

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Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840 by Virginia M. Bouvier Pdf

Studies of the Spanish conquest in the Americas traditionally have explained European-Indian encounters in terms of such factors as geography, timing, and the charisma of individual conquistadores. Yet by reconsidering this history from the perspective of gender roles and relations, we see that gender ideology was a key ingredient in the glue that held the conquest together and in turn shaped indigenous behavior toward the conquerors. This book tells the hidden story of women during the missionization of California. It shows what it was like for women to live and work on that frontierÑand how race, religion, age, and ethnicity shaped female experiences. It explores the suppression of women's experiences and cultural resistance to domination, and reveals the many codes of silence regarding the use of force at the missions, the treatment of women, indigenous ceremonies, sexuality, and dreams. Virginia Bouvier has combed a vast array of sourcesÑ including mission records, journals of explorers and missionaries, novels of chivalry, and oral historiesÑ and has discovered that female participation in the colonization of California was greater and earlier than most historians have recognized. Viewing the conquest through the prism of gender, Bouvier gives new meaning to the settling of new lands and attempts to convert indigenous peoples. By analyzing the participation of womenÑ both Hispanic and IndianÑ in the maintenance of or resistance to the mission system, Bouvier restores them to the narrative of the conquest, colonization, and evangelization of California. And by bringing these voices into the chorus of history, she creates new harmonies and dissonances that alter and enhance our understanding of both the experience and meaning of conquest.

Author : Theodore Henry Hittell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001678213

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History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell Pdf

Author : William Heath Davis,A. J. Leary
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1010174983

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Sixty Years in California, a History of Events and Life in California by William Heath Davis,A. J. Leary Pdf

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Author : Irving Berdine Richman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : California
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023504132

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California Under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847 by Irving Berdine Richman Pdf

Author : Charles Edward Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041573044

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A History of California by Charles Edward Chapman Pdf

Author : Andrew Rolle,Arthur C. Verge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118701140

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California by Andrew Rolle,Arthur C. Verge Pdf

The eighth edition of California: A History covers the entire scope of the history of the Golden State, from before first contact with Europeans through the present; an accessible and compelling narrative that comprises the stories of the many diverse peoples who have called, and currently do call, California home. Explores the latest developments relating to California’s immigration, energy, environment, and transportation concerns Features concise chapters and a narrative approach along with numerous maps, photographs, and new graphic features to facilitate student comprehension Offers illuminating insights into the significant events and people that shaped the lengthy and complex history of a state that has become synonymous with the American dream Includes discussion of recent – and uniquely Californian – social trends connecting Hollywood, social media, and Silicon Valley – and most recently "Silicon Beach"

Author : Leo R. Barker,Julia G. Costello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0824019644

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The Archaeology of Alta California by Leo R. Barker,Julia G. Costello Pdf

Author : Thomas W 1883-1965 Streeter
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 135645142X

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Alta California by Thomas W 1883-1965 Streeter Pdf

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Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : California
ISBN : UCAL:B3034540

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History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

Author : Charles E 1880-1941 Chapman
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298944252

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The Alta California Supply Ships, 1773-76 by Charles E 1880-1941 Chapman Pdf

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