A Companion to California History

This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California from its inception to the present day. Written by both senior scholars and new voices in the field as well as non–academic subject specialists, the essays range widely across perspectives, including political, social, economic, and environmental history. The volume’s unique structure pairs and groups essays that are similar in approach and conception so they work both as individual pieces and also as companions to each other throughout the text. Emerging out of the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West, a new research and teaching project associated with the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California, the Companion to California History is a valuable resource for students and researchers of the history of the Golden State.

List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction xiii Part I Introductory Essays 1 1. Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining California through Culture 3 James Quay 2. Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State: Defining California through History 22 D. J. Waldie 3. I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining California through Visual Culture 40 Catherine Gudis 4. At the Crossroads: Defi ning California through the Global Economy 75 Richard A. Walker Part II Early California 97 5. Junípero Serra across the Generations 99 Steven W. Hackel 6. Alta California, the Pacifi c, and International Commerce before the Gold Rush 116 David Igler 7. Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society 127 Rosamaría Toruño Tanghetti 8. Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century 145 Omar Valerio–Jiménez Part III Conquest and Statehood 159 9. The 1850s 161 William Deverell 10. Nature and Conquest: After the Deluge of ’49 175 Douglas Cazaux Sackman 11. Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century 192 William Bauer, Jr. 12. Transformations in Late Nineteenth–century Rural California 215 David Vaught 13. Transnational Commercial Orbits 230 Robert Chao Romero 14. Reconsidering Conservation 246 Benjamin Heber Johnson 15. Religion in the Early Twentieth Century 262 Darren Dochuk 16. Immigration, Race, and the Progressives 278 Lon Kurashige 17. New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s 292 Rick Wartzman Part IV Modern California 309 18. World War II 311 Arthur Verge 19. Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity 322 Daniel Hurewitz 20. Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and the Twentieth Century 339 Kevin Allen Leonard 21. The Long 1950s 358 Shana Bernstein 22. Apportionment Politics, 1920–70 375 Douglas Smith 23. Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the Postwar Decades 391 Kirse Granat May 24. At the Center of Indian Country 405 Nicolas G. Rosenthal 25. Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics 416 Josh Sides 26. A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez 428 Miriam Pawel 27. Hollywood Changes its Script 443 John Horn Part V California Prospects in the Twenty–first Century 453 28. Immigration and Race in the Twenty–first Century 455 Bill Ong Hing 29. Political Prospects in the Twenty–first Century 472 Raphael J. Sonenshein 30. Environmental Prospects in the Twenty–first Century 483 Jon Christensen Index 499

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author, editor, and co–editor of numerous publications including A Companion to the American West (Blackwell, 2004), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and (edited with Greg Hise) Land of Sunshine: The Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angel es (2005). David Igler is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920 (2001) and co–editor (with Clark Davis) of The Human Tradition in California (2002). He has published articles in the numerous history journals, including the American Historical Review , the Pacific Historical Review , Environmental History , and the Journal of Urban History .

"This is a useful book. For somebody whose training is in history, like me, there is enough substance in each chapter to make it worthwhile.... Like all Blackwell Companions, this volume is pleasant to use and handle." ( Reference Reviews , 2009)