Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-520-20704-2
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mission and court archives, oral histories, Spanish language plays, census and tax records) to build a new picture of rural society and social change.

A borderlands and Chicano history, Haas's work provides a richly textured study of events that took place in and around San Juan Capistrano and Santa Ana in present-day Orange County. She provides a vivid sense of how and why the past acquires meaning in the lives that make up the historical identities she discusses. The voices of Juaneño and Luiseño Indians, Californios, and Mexicans are heard along the shifting faultlines of economic, social, and political change.

This is one of the first truly multiethnic histories of California and of the West. It makes clear that issues of multiculturalism and ethnicity are not recent manifestations in California—they have characterized social and cultural relationships there since the late eighteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haas, Lisbeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

1
Indio and Juanefio, De Razon and Californio

2
Rural Society, 1840-1880

3
Village Society, Ethnic Communities, and Memory

4
Regional Culture

5
Racial and Ethnic Identities and the Politics of Space
Conclusion

APPENDIXES
1. A Note on Quantitative Method: The Federal Manuscript
Census, 1860-1910
2. Property Value by Group, Santa Ana and San Juan, 1860
and 1870
3· Household Composition by Group, Santa Ana and San
Juan, 1860-1880
4. Employment by Select Occupation and Group, Orange
County, 1900-191O
s. Indices of Barrio Formation in Santa Ana: Logan, Artesia,
and Delhi Barrios, 1916-1947

NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Über Autor(innen)

Lisbeth Haas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.