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Contest for California - From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest (Hardcover)
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Contest for California - From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest (Hardcover)
Series: Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series
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California's early history was both colorful and turbulent. After
Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it
was conquered and colonized by successive waves of adventurers and
settlers. In "Contest for California," award-winning author Stephen
G. Hyslop draws on a wide array of primary sources to weave an
elegant narrative of this epic struggle for control of the
territory that many saw as a beautiful, sprawling land of promise.
In vivid detail, Hyslop traces the story of early California from
its founding in 1769 by Spanish colonists to its annexation in 1848
by the United States. He describes the motivations and activities
of colonizers and colonized alike. Using eyewitness accounts, he
allows all participants--Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and
Anglo-American--to have their say. Soldiers, settlers,
missionaries, and merchants testify to the heroic and commonplace,
the colorful and tragic, in California's pre-American history.
Even as he acknowledges the dark side of this story, Hyslop avoids
a simplistic perspective. Moving beyond the polarities that have
marked late-twentieth-century California historiography, he offers
nuanced portraits of such controversial figures as Junipero Serra
and treats the Californios and their distinctive Hispanic culture
with a respect lacking in earlier histories. Attentive to tensions
within the invading groups--priests and the military during the
Spanish era, merchants and settlers during the American era--he
also never loses sight of their impact on the original inhabitants
of the region: California's Native peoples. He also recounts the
journeys of colonists from Russia, England, and other countries who
influenced the development of California as it passed from the
hands of Spaniards and Mexicans to Americans.
Exhaustively researched yet concise, this book offers a much-needed
alternative history of early California and its evolution from
Spanish colony to American territory.
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