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Alta California

Author : Nick Neely
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 164009444X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Alta California written by Nick Neely and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650–mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco—sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition—nearly 250 years later. Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California today—water, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and development—all of it one step at a time. “Rich in little–known history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." —San Francisco Chronicle

The History of Alta California

Author : Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299149749
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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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.

Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California

Author : Kathleen L. Hull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816554195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California written by Kathleen L. Hull and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists into Alta California between 1769 and 1834 challenged both Native and non-Native people to reimagine communities not only in different places and spaces but also in novel forms and practices. The contributors to this volume draw on archaeological and historical archival sources to analyze the generative processes and nature of communities of belonging in the face of rapid demographic change and perceived or enforced difference.

Gateway to Alta California

Author : Harry W. Crosby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gateway to Alta California written by Harry W. Crosby and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.

Alta California

Author : Steven W. Hackel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289048
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Alta California written by Steven W. Hackel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A set of probing and fascinating essays by leading scholars, Alta California illuminates the lives of missionaries and Indians in colonial California. With unprecedented depth and precision, the essays explore the interplay of race and culture among the diverse peoples adapting to the radical transformations of a borderland uneasily shared by natives and colonizers."—Alan Taylor, author of The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution "In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the missions of California and the communities that sprang up around them constituted a unique laboratory where ethnic, imperial, and national identities were molded and transformed. A group of distinguished scholars examine these identities through a variety of sources ranging from mission records and mitochondrial DNA to the historical memory of California's early history."—Andrés Reséndez, author of Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850

Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840

Author : Virginia M. Bouvier
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816524464
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840 written by Virginia M. Bouvier and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the Spanish conquest in the Americas traditionally have explained European-Indian encounters in terms of such factors as geography, timing, and the charisma of individual conquistadores. Yet by reconsidering this history from the perspective of gender roles and relations, we see that gender ideology was a key ingredient in the glue that held the conquest together and in turn shaped indigenous behavior toward the conquerors. This book tells the hidden story of women during the missionization of California. It shows what it was like for women to live and work on that frontierÑand how race, religion, age, and ethnicity shaped female experiences. It explores the suppression of women's experiences and cultural resistance to domination, and reveals the many codes of silence regarding the use of force at the missions, the treatment of women, indigenous ceremonies, sexuality, and dreams. Virginia Bouvier has combed a vast array of sourcesÑ including mission records, journals of explorers and missionaries, novels of chivalry, and oral historiesÑ and has discovered that female participation in the colonization of California was greater and earlier than most historians have recognized. Viewing the conquest through the prism of gender, Bouvier gives new meaning to the settling of new lands and attempts to convert indigenous peoples. By analyzing the participation of womenÑ both Hispanic and IndianÑ in the maintenance of or resistance to the mission system, Bouvier restores them to the narrative of the conquest, colonization, and evangelization of California. And by bringing these voices into the chorus of history, she creates new harmonies and dissonances that alter and enhance our understanding of both the experience and meaning of conquest.

Narratives of Persistence

Author : Lee Panich
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816543224
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Persistence written by Lee Panich and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Persistence charts the remarkable persistence of California's Ohlone and Paipai people over the past five centuries. Lee M. Panich draws connections between the events and processes of the deeper past and the way the Ohlone and Paipai today understand their own histories and identities.

Spanish Alta California

Author : Alberta Johnston Denis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish Alta California written by Alberta Johnston Denis and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California

Author : Kathleen L. Hull
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816538921
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California written by Kathleen L. Hull and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought the imposition of foreign beliefs, practices, and constraints on Indigenous peoples. Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California reorients understandings of this dynamic period, which challenged both Native and non-Native people to reimagine communities not only in different places and spaces but also in novel forms and practices. The contributors draw on archaeological and historical archival sources to analyze the generative processes and nature of communities of belonging in the face of rapid demographic change and perceived or enforced difference. Contributors provide important historical background on the effects that colonialism, missions, and lives lived beyond mission walls had on Indigenous settlement, marriage patterns, trade, and interactions. They also show the agency with which Indigenous peoples make their own decisions as they construct and reconstruct their communities. With nine different case studies and an insightful epilogue, this book offers analyses that can be applied broadly across the Americas, deepening our understanding of colonialism and community. Contributors: Julienne Bernard James F. Brooks John Dietler Stella D’Oro John G. Douglass John Ellison Glenn Farris Heather Gibson Kathleen L. Hull Linda Hylkema John R. Johnson Kent G. Lightfoot Lee M. Panich Sarah Peelo Seetha N. Reddy David W. Robinson Tsim D. Schneider Christina Spellman Benjamin Vargas

The Land Known As Alta California

Author : Regina V. Phelan
Publisher : california history
ISBN 13 : 9780870622755
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book The Land Known As Alta California written by Regina V. Phelan and published by california history. This book was released on 1997 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spanish Alta California

Author : Alberta Johnston Denis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Spanish Alta California written by Alberta Johnston Denis and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Founding of Spanish California

Author : Charles Edward Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Founding of Spanish California written by Charles Edward Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Old California

Author : Frank Oppel
Publisher : Book Sales Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781555215385
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old California written by Frank Oppel and published by Book Sales Inc. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with hundreds of original plates, this volume is a collection of 33 different articles, essays, and stories ranging from the years 1875 to 1912.

Towns in Mexican Alta California

Author : Robert Wayne Eversole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Towns in Mexican Alta California written by Robert Wayne Eversole and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alta California

Author : Lynn Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549925245
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Alta California written by Lynn Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 18th Century, Alta California tells the story of Paco Palido, a young man, half-indigenous half-Spanish, caught between two worlds. As a mission soldier employed by Padre Junipero Serro, Paco is privy to the confrontation between the army, led by Captain Felipe de Neve, and the church, each believing in their vision for the future of California Indians following Spain's imminent loss of Alta California. Already conflicted, a personal crisis stirs within Paco's soul after a confrontation with the Chumas Indians of Santa Barbara. It is from this moment on that two young women come to occupy Paco's mind: one woman is a submissive, domesticated baptized Indian; and the other woman is, Ifapi, a "wild" Chumash Indian and member of a warring tribe steadfastly refusing Christianization. Meeting Ifapi and her tribe creates the ultimate spiritual crisis for Paco Palido. His life will never be the same again.

[Huit heures vingt-cinq] 8h25, la police sonne à ma porte...

Author : Charles E 1880-1941 Chapman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021404541
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book [Huit heures vingt-cinq] 8h25, la police sonne à ma porte... written by Charles E 1880-1941 Chapman and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1930, this non-fiction work tells the story of the Spanish supply ships that sailed from Mexico to California in the late 18th century, supporting the missions and military outposts that formed the nucleus of Spanish colonial power in the region. With meticulous research and vivid storytelling, author Charles E. Chapman offers a window into a little-known chapter of California history, shedding light on the daily lives of sailors, explorers, and colonists in a time of great change and upheaval. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Alta California Supply Ships, 1773-76

Author : Charles Edward Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Alta California Supply Ships, 1773-76 written by Charles Edward Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bucareli intended to supply the northern outposts in California by ship from San Blas. The outposts had not been able to establish agricultural resources and had no manufacturing. Everything had to be supplied from Mexico. Because of storms and the few ships available to deliver supplies, people in the outposts endured great hardships. Eventually the ships did bring supplies and the Anza land expedition from Sonora to San Francisco brought supplies and population.