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California: A History, 8th Edition

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Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: California’s Distinctiveness

Chapter 2: The Native Americans

Chapter 3: Exploring Baja and Alta California

Chapter 4: Colonizers of the Frontier

Chapter 5: Missions, Presidios, and Pueblos

Chapter 6: California and Its Spanish Governors

Chapter 7: Exploration and Foreign Interference

Chapter 8: Arcadia

Chapter 9: Mexican California

Chapter 10: Infiltration and Revolt

Chapter 11: On the Eve of American Rule

Chapter 12: Trappers, Traders, and Homeseekers

Chapter 13: American Conquest

Chapter 14: Gold

Chapter 15: Approaches to Statehood

Chapter 16: Social Ferment

Chapter 17: A New Culture at the Golden Gate

Chapter 18: Post-Gold Rush Commerce

Chapter 19: The Messy Land Problem

Chapter 20: California and the Union

Chapter 21: Ships and Rails

Chapter 22: Agricultural and Urban Growth

Chapter 23: Discrimination and Accommodation

Chapter 24: Crushing or Saving the Indians?

Chapter 25: Labor, the Farmers, and the New Constitution 202

Chapter 26: California Culture, 1870–1918

Chapter 27: Progressive Politics

Chapter 28: Material Urban Growth

Chapter 29: Water, Conservation, and Agriculture

Chapter 30: Labor in an Industrial Age

Chapter 31: The Depression Years

Chapter 32: Twentieth-Century Culture

Chapter 33: Sports and Leisure

Chapter 34: Wartime Setbacks and Gains

Chapter 35: World War II and Its Aftermath

Chapter 36: The Beleaguered Sixties

Chapter 37: Environmental Realities

Chapter 38: From Reagan Conservatism to “Governor Moonbeam”

Chapter 39: A New Ethnicity

Chapter 40: From the Great Recession to the Rise of Silicon Beach

Chapter 41: Glowing Past Versus Troubled Future

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