California 1850
Author : Janice Marschner
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2002
Category : California
ISBN : 9780967706962
Author : Janice Marschner
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2002
Category : California
ISBN : 9780967706962
Author : Robert L. Griswold
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1983-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438405057
Family and Divorce in California succeeds in reconstructing the private world of farmers, laborers, small-town merchants tradesmen, and housewives through an examination of local newspapers, census data, legal documents, and, above all, divorce records during the years 1850 to 1890. Some 400 divorce cases from two rural counties form the core of the study. Here we see how the compassionate ideal, the cult of true womanhood, and the work ethic actually affected the attitudes and behavior of working-class and rural as well as urban, middle-class people. A wide variety of topics is covered: basic family values women's health, work, sexuality, character, and indepdence men's work, sexual conduct, and affective retions the nature of parenthood, childhood, and marital companionship domestic violenc The book also explores the early years of the divorce crisis that began in the 1880s and answers the questions of how and why it developed.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 1986-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199923256
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Author : Julie Ferris
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780753452189
Presents a look at the sites and society that existed in San Francisco during the time of the Gold Rush in the 1850s.
Author : John Aubrey Douglass
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2007-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1503617106
Throughout the twentieth century, public universities were established across the United States at a dizzying pace, transforming the scope and purpose of American higher education. Leading the way was California, with its internationally renowned network of public colleges and universities. This book is the first comprehensive history of California's pioneering efforts to create an expansive and high-quality system of public higher education. The author traces the social, political, and economic forces that established and funded an innovative, uniquely tiered, and geographically dispersed network of public campuses in California. This influential model for higher education, "The California Idea," created an organizational structure that combined the promise of broad access to public higher education with a desire to develop institutions of high academic quality. Following the story from early statehood through to the politics and economic forces that eventually resulted in the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education, The California Idea and American Higher Education offers a carefully crafted history of public higher education.
Author : Gordon T. McClelland
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : California
ISBN : 9780914589105
Author : Kimberly Johnston-Dodds
Publisher : California Research Bureau
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN :
Created by the California Research Bureau at the request of Senator John L. Burton, this Web-site is a PDF document on early California laws and policies related to the Indians of the state and focuses on the years 1850-1861. Visitors are invited to explore such topics as loss of lands and cultures, the governors and the militia, reports on the Mendocino War, absence of legal rights, and vagrancy and punishment.
Author : D. Michael Bottoms
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806188863
In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants. As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state’s legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed. Bottoms begins by analyzing white Californians’ mid-century efforts to prohibit nonwhite testimony against whites in court. Challenges to these laws by blacks and Chinese during Reconstruction followed a trajectory that would be repeated in later contests. Each minority challenged the others for higher status in court, at the polls, in education, and elsewhere, employing stereotypes and ideas of racial difference popular among whites to argue for its own rightful place in “civilized” society. Whites contributed to the melee by occasionally yielding to blacks in order to keep the Chinese and California Indians at a disadvantage. These dynamics reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. As An Aristocracy of Color reveals, Reconstruction outside of the South briefly promised an opportunity for broader equality but in the end strengthened and preserved the racial hierarchy that favored whites.
Author : John Ross Browne
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 1850
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : Donald R. Hannaford
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1589796853
In California, authentic Spanish colonial houses were built with local materials for comfort and convenience, with both construction and ornamentation traditional of Spanish and New England settlers. This book gives architects, home builders and historians a chance to view photos, sketches, and twenty-six full pages of measured drawings of interior and exterior doorways, paneling, balconies, wrought-iron, and mantels—most from houses that are no longer standing.