The History Of Alta California

Author : Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299149749
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Alta California written by Antonio Maria Osio and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 164009444X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alta California written by Nick Neely and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Steven W. Hackel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289048
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alta California written by Steven W. Hackel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Irving Berdine Richman
Publisher : Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847 written by Irving Berdine Richman and published by Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1911 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theodore Henry Hittell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of California written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alberta Johnston Denis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish Alta California written by Alberta Johnston Denis and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Rolle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118701046
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California written by Andrew Rolle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780824019648
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Alta California written by Leo R. Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1991 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Miller Guinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of California and an Extended History of Its Southern Coast Counties written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Regina V. Phelan
Publisher : california history
ISBN 13 : 9780870622755
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land Known As Alta California written by Regina V. Phelan and published by california history. This book was released on 1997 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: