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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

1 online resource (xxii, 412 p.) : ill., maps

ISBN 9781118292174 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781405194532 (pbk.)

ISBN 9781405194549 (hardback)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: 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 Index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher..

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