
Contested Eden
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California before the Gold Rush, the first California Sesquicentennial volume, combines topics of interest to scholars and general readers alike. The essays investigate traditional historical subjects and also explore such areas as environmental science, women's history, and Indian history. Authored by distinguished scholars in their respective fields, each essay contains excellent summary bibliographies of leading works on pertinent topics. This volume also features an extraordinary full-color photographic essay on the artistic record of the conquest of California by Europeans, as well as over seventy black-and-white photographs, some never before published.
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- Cover
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF MAPS
- PREFACE
- 1. Contested Eden: An Introduction
- 2. A World of Balance and Plenty: Land, Plants, Animals, and Humans in a Pre-Eurofean California
- 3. Indian Peoples of California
- 4. Seekers of the ''Northern Mystery': European Exploration of California and the Pacific
- 5. Land, Labor, and Production: The Colonial Economy of Spanish and Mexican California
- 6. "The Child of the Wilderness Weeps for the Father of Our Country": The Indian and the Politics of Church and State in Provincial California
- 7. The Creation and Re-creation of Californio Society
- 8. Between Crucifix and Lance: Indian-White Relations in California, 1769-1848
- 9. Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769-1848: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family
- 10. Serpent in the Garden: Environmental Change in Colonial California
- 11. Alta California's Trojan Horse: Foreign Immigration
- 12. War in California, 1846-1848
- PICTURING CALIFORNIA
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
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