Contested Eden : California before the Gold Rush / editors, Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi ; illustrations editor, Anthony Kirk ; associate editor, Marlene Smith-Barazini.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: California history ; v. 76, no. 2-3.Publication details: San Francisco, CA : Published for the California Historical Society by University of California Press, c1997.Description: xi, 401 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmOther title:
  • California before the Gold Rush
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F856 .C24
Contents:
Contested Eden: an introduction / Ramón Gutiérrez -- A world of balance and plenty: land, plants, animals, and humans in a pre-European California / M. Kat Anderson, Michael G. Barbour and Valerie Whitworth -- Indian peoples of California / William S. Simmons -- Seekers of the "Northern Mystery": European exploration of California and the Pacific / Iris H.W. Engstrand -- Land, labor, and production: the colonial economy of Spanish and Mexican California / Stephen W. Hackel -- "The Child of the Wilderness weeps for the Father of our Country": the Indian and the politics of church and state in provincial California / Michael J. González -- The creation and re-creation of Californio society / Douglas Monroy -- Between crucifix and lance: Indian-white relations in California, 1769-1848 / James A. Sandos -- Engendering the history of Alta California, 1769-1848: gender, sexuality, and the family / Antonia A. Casteñeda -- Serpent in the garden: environmental change in colonial California / William Preston -- Alta California's Trojan horse: foreign immigration / Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. -- War in California, 1846-1848 / Lisbeth Haas.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks F856.C24 1997 1 Available 33710001055081

Special double issue of California history: Vol. 76, no. 2-3 (Summer and fall, 1997)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contested Eden: an introduction / Ramón Gutiérrez -- A world of balance and plenty: land, plants, animals, and humans in a pre-European California / M. Kat Anderson, Michael G. Barbour and Valerie Whitworth -- Indian peoples of California / William S. Simmons -- Seekers of the "Northern Mystery": European exploration of California and the Pacific / Iris H.W. Engstrand -- Land, labor, and production: the colonial economy of Spanish and Mexican California / Stephen W. Hackel -- "The Child of the Wilderness weeps for the Father of our Country": the Indian and the politics of church and state in provincial California / Michael J. González -- The creation and re-creation of Californio society / Douglas Monroy -- Between crucifix and lance: Indian-white relations in California, 1769-1848 / James A. Sandos -- Engendering the history of Alta California, 1769-1848: gender, sexuality, and the family / Antonia A. Casteñeda -- Serpent in the garden: environmental change in colonial California / William Preston -- Alta California's Trojan horse: foreign immigration / Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. -- War in California, 1846-1848 / Lisbeth Haas.