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Major problems in California history : documents and essays
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- Creator
- edited by Sucheng Chan, Spencer C. Olin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1997]
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 496 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0669275883, 9780669275889
- OCLC
- ocm36297687
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The significance of California history -- The first Californians -- The Spanish impact on the Indians, 1769-1821 -- Mexican California : a study in contrasts -- Conflicts over land in a new state, 1850s-1870s -- Disputes over water, 1880s-1910s -- Big business and urban labor, 1860s-1930s -- California progressives : the ambiguities of political and moral reform -- Hollywood and the California dream, 1910s-1930s -- Farmworker struggles in the 1930s -- The impact of World War II on California's economy -- The changing lives of women and minorities, 1940s-1950s -- Politics and protest, 1960s-1970s -- The rise of information capitalism -- The environment and the quality of life since 1960 -- Racial and class tensions, 1960s-1990s