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Book Synopsis Edward Vischer Papers by : Edward Vischer
Download or read book Edward Vischer Papers written by Edward Vischer and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written by him, including one to his son Hubert re his drawings of the California missions, containing an index of mission and rural views, 1861-1878; receipt to W.H. Davis; a manuscript booklet with title "Presidios of upper California" containing manuscript maps, plans and notes on the presidios of San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey and San Francisco as they were in 1820, compiled by M.G. Vallejo. With these: 2 copies of a 1909 agreement between Hubert Vischer and the Academy of Pacific Coast History, concerning his father's mission drawings, signed by H. Morse Stephens.
Book Synopsis Edward Vischer & His "Pictorial of California" by : Hubert Vischer
Download or read book Edward Vischer & His "Pictorial of California" written by Hubert Vischer and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vischer was a German who went to South America as a businessman. While there he offered hospitality to Charles Darwin. He moved later to California during the Gold Rush for business. He took up sketching scenes of his travels. He planned Pictorial of California to be a series of 60 landscape views, later expanded to over 100. Mariano Vallejo urged him to add views of the presidios to those of the missions.
Book Synopsis Recuerdos by : Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Download or read book Recuerdos written by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well—a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush by someone who resided in California at the time. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. With his project, undertaken for historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vallejo sought to correct misrepresentations of California’s past, which dismissed as insignificant the pre–gold rush Spanish and Mexican periods—conflated into one “Mission era.” Instead, Vallejo’s history emphasized the role of the military in the Spanish colonization of California and argued that the missionaries after Junípero Serra, with their medieval ideas, had actually retarded the development of California until secularization in the early 1830s. Culture, he contended, was of intense interest to the Californio people, as was the education of children. His accounts of Indigenous peoples, while often sympathetic, were also characteristic of his time: he and other California military leaders, Vallejo maintained, had successfully subdued “hostile” Indians and established mutually beneficial relationships with others. Out of keeping with Bancroft’s American triumphalism, Vallejo’s monumental project was consigned to the archives. With their deft translation and commentary, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz—authors of a companion volume on Vallejo’s work—have brought to light a remarkable perspective, often firsthand, on important events in early California history. Their efforts restore a critical chapter to the story of California and the American West.
Book Synopsis California Decisions by : California. Supreme Court
Download or read book California Decisions written by California. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pioneer Photographers of the Far West by : Peter E. Palmquist
Download or read book Pioneer Photographers of the Far West written by Peter E. Palmquist and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Book Synopsis The History of Alta California by : Antonio Maria Osio
Download or read book The History of Alta California written by Antonio Maria Osio and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
Book Synopsis “Vischer's” Pictorial of California by : Edward Vischer
Download or read book “Vischer's” Pictorial of California written by Edward Vischer and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis by : Barbara L. Voss
Download or read book The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis written by Barbara L. Voss and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Compelling new evidence, careful documentation, and an artfully woven narrative make The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis a path-breaking book for sociocultural scholars as well as for general readers interested in the politics of identity, ethnicity, gender, and the colonial and U.S. Western history.”—Transforming Anthropology “Voss’s lucid explanations of method and theory make the book accessible to a broad range of audiences, from upper-level undergraduate and graduate students to professionals and lay audiences. . . . Its interdisciplinarity, indeed, may help to sell archaeology to audiences who do not typically consider archaeological evidence as an option for identity studies.”—Current Anthropology “The book reminds historians that other disciplines can offer fruitful methodological forays into well-trodden areas of study.”—Journal of American History “Those scholars studying various aspects of the Hispanic worldwide empire would be well advised to peruse Voss’s work.”—Historical Archaeology “[W]ell written, theoretically sophisticated, and unburdened by abstract concepts or hyper-qualified verbiage.”—H-Net Reviews “[E]ngaging. Overall, the text belongs in the library of every student of Spanish and Mexican Alta California. . . . The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis will become an anthropological standard.”—Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology “[A] must-read for all interested not only in colonial California, but for all historical archaeologists and to any archaeologist interested in the examination of identities.”—Cambridge Archaeological Journal “Shows how individuals negotiate ethnic identity through everyday objects and actions.”—SMRC Revista In this interdisciplinary study, Barbara Voss examines religious, environmental, cultural, and political differences at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, to reveal the development of social identities within the colony. Voss reconciles material culture with historical records, challenging widely held beliefs about ethnicity.
Book Synopsis Print the Legend by : Martha A. Sandweiss
Download or read book Print the Legend written by Martha A. Sandweiss and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurrecting scores of rare images of the 19th century American West, "Print the Legend" offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book portrays how Americans first came to understand western photos and to envision their expanding nation. 138 illustrations.
Book Synopsis Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume II by : Erlinda Gonzales-Berry
Download or read book Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume II written by Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the series contains articles by the leading scholars on Hispanic literary history of the United States given at the annual convention on Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. The articles in this volume are in five sections: The Recovery Project Comes of Age; Assimilation, Accommodation or Resistance?; History in Literature/Literature in History; Writing the Revolution; and Recovering the Creation of Community.
Book Synopsis Journal by : California. Legislature
Download or read book Journal written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprising all the decisions of the Supreme Courts of California, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, District Courts of Appeal and Appellate Department of the Superior Court of California and Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma." (varies)
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California by : California. Supreme Court
Download or read book Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California written by California. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California by : Jeanne Farr McDonnell
Download or read book Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California written by Jeanne Farr McDonnell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juana Briones de Miranda lived an unusual life, which is wonderfully recounted in this highly accessible biography. She was one of the first residents of what is now San Francisco, then named Yerba Buena (Good Herb), reportedly after a medicinal tea she concocted. She was among the few women in California of her time to own property in her own name, and she proved to be a skilled farmer, rancher, and businesswoman. In retelling her life story, Jeanne Farr McDonnell also retells the history of nineteenth-century California from the unique perspective of this surprising woman. Juana Briones was born in 1802 and spent her early youth in Santa Cruz, a community of retired soldiers who had helped found Spanish California, Native Americans, and settlers from Mexico. In 1820, she married a cavalryman at the San Francisco Presidio, Apolinario Miranda. She raised her seven surviving sons and daughters and adopted an orphaned Native American girl. Drawing on knowledge she gained about herbal medicine and other cures from her family and Native Americans, she became a highly respected curandera, or healer. Juana set up a second home and dairy at the base of then Loma Alta, now Telegraph Hill, the first house in that area. After gaining a church-sanctioned separation from her abusive husband, she expanded her farming and cattle business in 1844 by purchasing a 4,400-acre ranch, where she built her house, located in the present city of Palo Alto. She successfully managed her extensive business interests until her death in 1889. Juana Briones witnessed extraordinary changes during her lifetime. In this fascinating book, readers will see California’s history in a new and revelatory light.
Book Synopsis National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections by :
Download or read book National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Assembly, during the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California by : California. Legislature. Assembly
Download or read book The Journal of the Assembly, during the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle by :
Download or read book The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1985 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
