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Book The Emigrant s Guide to the Gold Mines

Download or read book The Emigrant s Guide to the Gold Mines written by Henry I. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Human Tradition in California

Download or read book The Human Tradition in California written by Clark Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a land mass one and half times larger than the United Kingdom, a population of more than thirty million, and an economy that would rank sixth among world nations, the history of the state of California demands a closer look. The Human Tradition in California captures the region's rich history and diversity, taking readers into the daily lives of ordinary Californians at key moments in time. These brief biographies show how individual people and communities have influenced the broad social, cultural, political and economic forces that have shaped California history from the pre-mission period through the late-twentieth century. In personalizing California's history, this engaging new book brings the Golden State to life. About the Editors Clark Davis has written extensively about California and its colorful history. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Pacific Historical Review. He is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. David Igler is a long-time historian of California history and culture. He has presented for the Western Historical Association, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and the California Studies Association. Dr. Igler is professor of history at the University of Utah.

Book The California Gold Rush

Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by Elizabeth Raum and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "2 story paths, 54 choices, 14 endings"--Cover.

Book The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft  History of Central America  1882 87

Download or read book The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft History of Central America 1882 87 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book West American History

Download or read book West American History written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft  History of Central America  1886 1887

Download or read book The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft History of Central America 1886 1887 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of American Literature  Later national literature  pt  3

Download or read book A History of American Literature Later national literature pt 3 written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An American Genocide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Madley
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300181361
  • Pages : 709 pages

Download or read book An American Genocide written by Benjamin Madley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials' culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.

Book Indians of California

Download or read book Indians of California written by James J. Rawls and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes changing white views of native California Indians as Spanish victims, useful laborers, and, finally, obstacles to white expansion

Book History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851

Download or read book History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 written by Mary Floyd Williams and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of California Publications in History

Download or read book University of California Publications in History written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Continental Reckoning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elliott West
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2023-02
  • ISBN : 1496233581
  • Pages : 704 pages

Download or read book Continental Reckoning written by Elliott West and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880.

Book Freedom s Frontier

Download or read book Freedom s Frontier written by Stacey L. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction

Book A Catalogue of the Everett D  Graff Collection of Western Americana

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Colton Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire by Invitation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Gobat
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2018-04-01
  • ISBN : 067498501X
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Empire by Invitation written by Michel Gobat and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Gobat traces the untold story of the rise and fall of the first U.S. overseas empire to William Walker, a believer in the nation’s manifest destiny to spread its blessings not only westward but abroad as well. In the 1850s Walker and a small group of U.S. expansionists migrated to Nicaragua determined to forge a tropical “empire of liberty.” His quest to free Central American masses from allegedly despotic elites initially enjoyed strong local support from liberal Nicaraguans who hoped U.S.-style democracy and progress would spread across the land. As Walker’s group of “filibusters” proceeded to help Nicaraguans battle the ruling conservatives, their seizure of power electrified the U.S. public and attracted some 12,000 colonists, including moral reformers. But what began with promises of liberation devolved into a reign of terror. After two years, Walker was driven out. Nicaraguans’ initial embrace of Walker complicates assumptions about U.S. imperialism. Empire by Invitation refuses to place Walker among American slaveholders who sought to extend human bondage southward. Instead, Walker and his followers, most of whom were Northerners, must be understood as liberals and democracy promoters. Their ambition was to establish a democratic state by force. Much like their successors in liberal-internationalist and neoconservative foreign policy circles a century later in Washington, D.C., Walker and his fellow imperialists inspired a global anti-U.S. backlash. Fear of a “northern colossus” precipitated a hemispheric alliance against the United States and gave birth to the idea of Latin America.