Download or read book Land in California written by W. W. Robinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1948 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of California can be told in terms of its land. Better still, it can be told in terms of men and women claiming the land. These men and women form a procession that begins in prehistory and comes down to the present moment. Heading the procession are Indians, stemming out of a mysterious past, speaking a babel of tongues, and laying claims to certain hunting, fishing, and acorn-gathering areas-possessory claims doomed to fade quickly before conquering white races. Following the brown-skinned Indians are Spanish speaking soldiers, settlers, and missionaries who, in 1769, began coming up through Lower California and taking over the fertile coast valleys and the harbors of California. Their laws were the Laws of the Indies controlling Spanish colonization and governing ownership of land. Missions, presidios, pueblos, and ranchos were born in the period of these people.
Download or read book We Are the Land written by Damon B. Akins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.
Download or read book The Dreamt Land written by Mark Arax and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
Download or read book Two Million Acres of Land written by California State Land Information Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern California written by Carey McWilliams and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 1973 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of Southern California, discussing the history of the region, seasons, Native Americans, missions, folklore, culture, Hollywood, politics, and more.
Download or read book A Land Between written by Rebecca Fish Ewan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-12-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Between tells the stories of the people who have lived in the valley and uncovers the marks they have left on the land.
Download or read book Land in California written by W.W. Robinson and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1979 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land in California, the story of mission land, ranches, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, homesteads
Download or read book California Land and Legacy written by William B. Fulton and published by Westcliffe Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This coffee table book reflects on the events that have shaped the state's history, & projects the legacy determined by today's action.
Download or read book Introduction to Earth Soil and Land in California written by David Carle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Carle has produced another gem of a book that should be in easy reach of every lover of California. Introductions to Earth, Soil, and Land in California is a portable encyclopedia-fun to read and filled with photos and facts."-Peter Moyle, auhtor of Inland Fishes of California --
Download or read book Know California s Land written by Leonard R. Wohletz and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Land Was Mexican Once written by Linda Heidenreich and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Euro Americans. Napa's history clearly is one of co-existence; yet, its schoolbooks tell a linear story that climaxes with the arrival of Euro Americans. In "This Land was Mexican Once," Linda Heidenreich excavates Napa's subaltern voices and histories to tell a complex, textured local history with important implications for the larger American West, as well. Heidenreich is part of a new generation of scholars who are challenging not only the old, Euro-American depiction of California, but also the linear method of historical storytelling—a method that inevitably favors the last man writing. She first maps the overlapping histories that comprise Napa's past, then examines how the current version came to dominate—or even erase—earlier events. So while history, in Heidenreich's words, may be "the stuff of nation-building," it can also be "the stuff of resistance." Chapters are interspersed with "source breaks"—raw primary sources that speak for themselves and interrupt the linear, Euro-American telling of Napa's history. Such an inclusive approach inherently acknowledges the connections Napa's peoples have to the rest of the region, for the linear history that marginalizes minorities is not unique to Napa. Latinos, for instance, have populated the American West for centuries, and are still shaping its future. In the end, "This Land was Mexican Once" is more than the story of Napa, it is a multidimensional model for reflecting a multicultural past.
Download or read book Land and Law in California written by Paul Gates and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land and Law in California present essays by Paul W. Gates, a foremost authority on American public lands history.
Download or read book California Rural Land Use and Management written by United States. Forest Service. California Region and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Rural Land Use and Management written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Rural Land Use and Management written by United States. Forest Service. California Region and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaining the Land written by Francois D. Uzes and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Lands written by Samuel Trask Dana and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
