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100 1 $aStarr, Kevin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80149111
245 10 $aCalifornia :$ba history /$cKevin Starr.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bModern Library,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axxv, 370 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aA Modern Library chronicles book ;$v23
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [347]-356) and index.
505 00 $tMap : the counties of California -- $tPreface : a nation-state -- $g1.$tQueen Calafia's Island : place and first people -- $g2.$tLaws of the Indies : the Spanish colonial era -- $g3.$tA troubled territory : Mexican California -- $g4.$tStriking it rich : the establishment of an American state -- $g5.$tRegulation, railroad, and revolution : achievement and turmoil in the new state -- $g6.$tThe higher provincialism : American life in an emergent region -- $g7.$tGreat expectations : creating the infrastructure of a mega-state -- $g8.$tMaking it happen : labor through the great depression and beyond -- $g9.$tWar and peace : Garrison state and suburban growth -- $g10.$tO brave new world! seeking utopia through science and technology -- $g11.$tAn imagined place : art and life on the coast of dreams -- $g12.$tEcumenopolis : forging a world society -- $g13.$tArnold! : stewardship or squandered legacy?
520 1 $a"Arguing that America's most populous state has always been blessed with both spectacular natural beauty and astonishing human diversity, Starr unfolds a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph. For generations, California's native peoples basked in the abundance of a climate and topography eminently suited to human habitation. By the time the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth century, scores of autonomous tribes were thriving in the region. Though conquest was rapid, nearly two centuries passed before Spain exerted control over upper California through the chain of missions that stand to this day." "The discovery of gold in January 1848 changed everything. With its population increasing exponentially as get-rich-quick dreamers converged from all over the world, California reinvented itself overnight. Starr deftly traces the successive waves of innovation and calamity that have broken over the state since then - the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world's entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the heroic irrigation and transportation projects that have altered the face of the region; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace." "Kevin Starr has devoted his career to the history of his beloved state. This one-volume distillation of a lifetime's work gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018879
830 0 $aModern Library chronicles ;$v23.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00036893
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005043857-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005043857-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005043857-s.html
852 00 $bglx$hF861$i.S83 2005