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A GUIDE TO
THE HISTORY OFCALIFORNIA
Edited by
Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.,
and
Gloria Ricci Lothrop
REFERENCE GUIDES TO STATE HISTORY AND RESEARCH
Light T. Cummins and Glen Jeansonne, Series Editors
GREENWOOD PRESS
NEW YORK • WESITORT, CONNECTICUT • LONDON
 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataA Guide to the history of California / edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.,and Gloria Ricci Lothrop.
p. cm.— (Reference guides to state history and research)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-313-24970-9 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
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Californi
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History—Sources—Bibliography. 2. California—Historiography. 3. Archives—Califomia—Directories.4. Historical l
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Blackman. II. Lathrop, Gloria Ricci. Lit. Series.Z1261.G85 1989
(F861)
016.9794—dc 19
88-15488
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.Copyright © 1989 by Doyce
B.
Nunis, Jr., and Gloria Ricci LothropAn rights reserved. No portion of this book may bereproduced, by any process or technique, without theexpress written consent of the publisher.Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 88-15488
ISBN: 0-313-24970-9
First published in 1989
Greenwood Press, Inc.
88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881Printed in the United States of AmericaThe paper used in this book complies with thePermanent Paper Standard issued by the National
information Standards Organization (Z39.48-I984).
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CONTENTS
Introduction
vu
Abbreviations
xi
PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL LITERATURE _
1.Hispanic California, 1542-1848
Iris H. W. Engstrand and Daniel Tyler
2.
Early American California, 1848-1880
21
John E. Baur
3.
The Gilded
Age
and Progressivism, 1880-1930
35
Jackson K. Putnam
4.
The Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1945
51
James J. Rawls5, California since 1945
63
Paul Bullock
6.
California Chicanos
75
Francisco E.
Balderrama
7.
California Blacks
85
Lawrence B. de Graaf
8.
California Asians
99
Donald T. Hata, Jr., and Nadine I. Hata
 
vi Contents
9.
California Women
Gloria Ricci Lothrop10.
Urban CaliforniaGunther Barth
PART TWO: ARCHIVES AND SOURCES
111
129145154163
175
181
187197
211
INTRODUCTION
E PHENOMENAL GROWTH
of California is one of the spectacular aspects ofhistory. Founded as imperial Spain's last colonial venture in 1769, it hardly
prospered, let alone grew under Spanish rule. With Mexico's independence fromSpain, 1821, California witnessed important changes, not least of which was therival of foreign immigrants with Anglo surnames. This Anglo population con-
tributed to broadening the base of the province's economic life. Agriculture,
commerce, lumbering, and trade were greatly stimulated. On the eve of the
United States' war with Mexico in 1846, one objective of which was to obtainCalifornia, the non-Indian population was probably less than 15,000, with theheaviest concentration in and around Los Angeles. On July 7, 1846, American
naval forces officially occupied California, a conquest sanctioned by purchase inthe Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848.
With American acquisition, few dreamed that thb former Mexican provincewould be ready for territorial status, let alone statehood, for decades to come.
Fate decreed otherwise. Ten days before the purchase of the Mexican Cession, a
lowly New Jersey-born mechanic, James W. Marshall, working in partnershipith John A. Sutter, discovered gold in a millrace at Coloma on the American
'vet. What ensued was the modern world's first great gold rush. Less than two
years later, pastoral California became the thirty-first state in the Union, admit-
ted on September 9, 1850. A century and a decade later California became the
most populous state in the nation. It remains so today.It would appear a safe assumption to declare that beginning with the MexicanWar California has received continuing national attention. Not that the state hasalways held center stage, to be sure, but it has received more than passing notice,
especially in the large number of published diaries, travel accounts, journals,
11.
National Archives Federal Records Centers
—Los Angeles Branch
Diane S. Nixon
—San Francisco Branch
Michael Anderson
12.
California State ArchivesDavid L. Snyder
13.
County Records
Kenneth N. Owens
14.California State Library
Gary F. Kurutz
15.
The Bancroft LibraryWilliam M. Roberts
16.
The Huntington LibraryPeter J. Blodgett and William P. Frank
17.
California Collections at UCLADavid S. Zeidberg, Anne Caiger, Dan Luckenbill,and Lilace Hatayama
18.
Other Archival RepositoriesGloria Ricci Lothrop, Larry E Burgess, and John Porter Bloom
19.
Oral History: A DirectoryWilla Baum, Sarah Sharp, and James V. Mink
Appendix I. Chronology of California History
Appendix II. References to Lists of Organizations withSpecial Interest in California History
Index
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