California. An American History
de Faragher, John Mack
- Usado
- Estado
- New Book
- ISBN 10
- 0300225792
- ISBN 13
- 9780300225792
- Librería
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Yale University Press, 2022. New Book. Hardcover. 480 pp. with illustrations.
A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation.
"A masterful history." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California's multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles."-Carlos E. Cortés, University of California, Riverside
California is the most multicultural state in the nation. As John Mack Faragher argues in this concise and lively history, that is nothing new. California's natural variety has always supported diversity, including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages, Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern states, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
Beautifully crafted and elegantly written, Faragher tells the stories of a colorful cast of characters, some famous, others mostly unknown, including African American Archy Lee, who sued for his freedom; Sinkyone Indian woman Sally Bell, who survived genocide; and Jewish schoolgirl Marilyn Greene, who spoke up for her Japanese friends after Pearl Harbor. California's multicultural diversity often led to conflict, turmoil, and violence, but also to invention, improvisation, and a struggle for multicultural democracy.
John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he also serves as Director of the Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. His many books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, and The American West: A New Interpretive History.
A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation.
"A masterful history." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California's multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles."-Carlos E. Cortés, University of California, Riverside
California is the most multicultural state in the nation. As John Mack Faragher argues in this concise and lively history, that is nothing new. California's natural variety has always supported diversity, including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages, Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern states, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
Beautifully crafted and elegantly written, Faragher tells the stories of a colorful cast of characters, some famous, others mostly unknown, including African American Archy Lee, who sued for his freedom; Sinkyone Indian woman Sally Bell, who survived genocide; and Jewish schoolgirl Marilyn Greene, who spoke up for her Japanese friends after Pearl Harbor. California's multicultural diversity often led to conflict, turmoil, and violence, but also to invention, improvisation, and a struggle for multicultural democracy.
John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he also serves as Director of the Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. His many books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, and The American West: A New Interpretive History.
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- Globus Books (US)
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- Título
- California. An American History
- Autor
- Faragher, John Mack
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300225792
- ISBN 13
- 9780300225792
- Editorial
- Yale University Press
- Fecha de publicación
- 2022
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