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California

An American History
  • John Mack Faragher
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation

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John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he also serves as director of the Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. His many books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, and The American West: A New Interpretive History.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    1 A State of Diversity

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    2 Little Countries

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    3 Big White Birds

    21
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    4 China Ships

    30
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    5 Extending the Spanish Domain

    39
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    6 The Wanderer

    48
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    7 What Happened to My Chickens?

    60
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    8 Undersea People

    70
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    9 The Liberal Cause

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    10 Members of a Single Family

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    11 We Are Free

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    12 Viva California Libre

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    13 Wicked Foreigners

    121
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    14 Yankee Doodle in Monterey

    130
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    15 Overland to California

    138
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    16 We Must Be Conquerors

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    17 The Horrors of War

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    18 Gold from the American River

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    19 A White Republic

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    20 Popular Justice

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    21 My Little Sister’s Heart in My Hands

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    22 I’ll Never Be Carried into Slavery

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    23 Bohemian Days

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    24 The Terrible Seventies

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    25 The Cow Counties

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    26 A Cosmopolitan City

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    27 The Remedy Is More Democracy

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    28 Bounty of the Mountains

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    29 Invisible Walls of Steel

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    30 Human Rights and Home Rule

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    31 The Man with the Hoe

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    32 End Poverty in California

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    33 Unite to Win

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    34 Make No Small Plan for California

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    35 Rebels and Forerunners

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    36 A Cyclone in a Wind Tunnel

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    37 A Complicated Ecosystem

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    38 The Impossible Dream

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    39 E Pluribus Unum

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    40 The First Step

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    Acknowledgments

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    Index

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May 10, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780300265187
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448
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44 b-w illus.
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https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300265187
eBook ISBN: 9780300265187
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