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Pacific Eldorado [electronic resource] a history of greater California / Thomas J. Osborne.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Description: xxii, 412 p. : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 9781118292174 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 979.4 23
LOC classification:
  • F861 .O63 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Beginnings: From Fire and Ice to Indian Homeland 2. Spain's Greater California Coast 3. A Globally Connected Mexican Province 4. War and Gold: America's West Coast Eldorado 5. National Crisis, Statehood, and Social Change 6. Pacific-bound Rails, Hard Times, and Chinese Exclusion 7. Eldorado's Economic and Cultural Growth 8. Anti-Railroad Politics, Municipal Graft, and Labor Struggles 9. Governor Hiram Johnson and the Progressive Movement 10. Good Times and Bad: The Interwar Years 11. America's Pacific Bulwark: WW II and Its Aftermath 12. Liberalism at High Tide 13. The Conservative Backlash and the Politics of Limits 14. The Ongoing Pacific Shift Appendixes: A Chronology of California History; Governors of California Index.
Summary: "Osborne's work is the first history text to explore the sweep of California's past in relationship to its connections within the maritime world of the Pacific Basin"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Beginnings: From Fire and Ice to Indian Homeland 2. Spain's Greater California Coast 3. A Globally Connected Mexican Province 4. War and Gold: America's West Coast Eldorado 5. National Crisis, Statehood, and Social Change 6. Pacific-bound Rails, Hard Times, and Chinese Exclusion 7. Eldorado's Economic and Cultural Growth 8. Anti-Railroad Politics, Municipal Graft, and Labor Struggles 9. Governor Hiram Johnson and the Progressive Movement 10. Good Times and Bad: The Interwar Years 11. America's Pacific Bulwark: WW II and Its Aftermath 12. Liberalism at High Tide 13. The Conservative Backlash and the Politics of Limits 14. The Ongoing Pacific Shift Appendixes: A Chronology of California History; Governors of California Index.

"Osborne's work is the first history text to explore the sweep of California's past in relationship to its connections within the maritime world of the Pacific Basin"-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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