Pacific Eldorado A History of Greater

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 prehistoric Asian seafarers who navigated the Pacific Rim coastline

Thomas J. Osborne is Emeritus Professor of History at Santa Ana College, where he received the inaugural Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award. He earned his Ph.D in history from Claremont Graduate University and is the author and co-author of several scholarly books, articles and reviews, including Paths to the Present: Thoughts on the Contemporary Relevance of America’s Past (co-authored with Fred R. Mabbutt) and “Empire Can Wait:” American Opposition to Hawaiian Annexation, 1893-1898.

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

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Pacific Eldorado A History of Greater California

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