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Detailed description 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. * Presents a provocative and original interpretation of the entire span of California history * Reveals how the area's Pacific Basin connections have shaped the Golden State's past * Refutes the widely held notion among historians that California was isolated before the onset of the American period in the mid-1800s * Represents the first text to draw on anthropologist Jon Erlandson's findings that California's first human inhabitants were likely prehistoric Asian seafarers who navigated the Pacific Rim coastline * Includes instructor resources in an online companion site: www.wiley.com/go/osborne
From the contents 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
