TY - BOOK AU - Rolle Andrew F TI - California: a history SN - 0882959735 (alk. paper) AV - F861 U1 - 979.4 PY - 2003/// CY - Wheeling, Ill. PB - Harlan Davidson KW - California KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; California's distinctiveness -- The Native Americans -- Exploring Baja and Alta California -- Colonizers of the frontier -- Missions, presidios, and pueblos -- California and its Spanish governors -- Exploration and foreign interference -- Arcadia -- Mexican California -- Infiltration and revolt -- On the eve of American rule -- Trappers, traders, and homeseekers -- American conquest -- Gold -- Approaches to statehood -- Social ferment -- A new culture at the golden gate -- Post-gold rush commerce -- The land problem -- California and the Union -- Ships and rails -- Agricultural and urban growth -- Discrimination and accommodation -- Crushing or saving the Indians? -- Labor, the farmers, and the new constitution -- California culture, 1870-1918 -- Progressive politics -- Continuing material growth -- Water, conservation, and agriculture -- Labor in an industrial age -- The depression years -- Twentieth-century culture -- A western world of sports and leisure --Wartime setbacks and gains -- California after World War II -- The beleaguered sixties -- Environmental realities -- Seeking new solutions -- An ethnic tapestry -- A transformative society -- The governors of California UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2002008872.html ER -