TY - BOOK AU - Osborne,Thomas J. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Pacific Eldorado: a history of greater California AV - F861 .O63 2013eb U1 - 979.4 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - California KW - History KW - History, Naval KW - Commerce KW - Pacific Area KW - Relations KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Beginnings: From Fire and Ice to Indian Homeland 2. Spain's Greater California Coast 3. A Globally Connected Mexican Province 4. War and Gold: America's West Coast Eldorado 5. National Crisis, Statehood, and Social Change 6. Pacific-bound Rails, Hard Times, and Chinese Exclusion 7. Eldorado's Economic and Cultural Growth 8. Anti-Railroad Politics, Municipal Graft, and Labor Struggles 9. Governor Hiram Johnson and the Progressive Movement 10. Good Times and Bad: The Interwar Years 11. America's Pacific Bulwark: WW II and Its Aftermath 12. Liberalism at High Tide 13. The Conservative Backlash and the Politics of Limits 14. The Ongoing Pacific Shift Appendixes: A Chronology of California History; Governors of California Index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "Osborne's work is the first history text to explore the sweep of California's past in relationship to its connections within the maritime world of the Pacific Basin"-- UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10657972 ER -