
Contested Eden
by Gutierrez, Ramon A.Buy New
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Table of Contents
List of Maps | |
Preface | |
Contested Eden: An Introduction | p. 1 |
A World of Balance and Plenty: Land, Plants, Animals, and Humans in a Pre-European California | p. 12 |
Indian Peoples of California | p. 48 |
Seekers of the "Northern Mystery": European Exploration of California and the Pacific | p. 78 |
Land, Labor, and Production: The Colonial Economy of Spanish and Mexican California | p. 111 |
"The Child of the Wilderness Weeps for the Father of Our Country": The Indian and the Politics of Church and State in Provincial California | p. 147 |
The Creation and Re-creation of California Society | p. 173 |
Between Crucifix and Lance: Indian-White Relations in California, 1769-1848 | p. 196 |
Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769-1848: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family | p. 230 |
Serpent in the Garden: Environmental Change in Colonial California | p. 260 |
Alta California's Trojan Horse: Foreign Immigration | p. 299 |
War in California, 1846-1848 | p. 331 |
Picturing California | p. 357 |
List of Contributors | p. 375 |
Index | p. 379 |
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