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Author Haas, Lisbeth

Title Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936 / Lisbeth Haas
Edition [Pbk. ed., 1996]
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- 1. Indioand Juaneno, De Razón and Californio -- 2. Rural Society, 1840-1880 -- 3. Village Society, Ethnic Communities, and Memory -- 4. Regional Culture -- 5. Racial and Ethnic Identities and the Politics of Space -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. A Note on Quantitative Method: The Federal Manuscript Census, 1860-1910 -- Appendix 2. Property Value by Group, Santa Ana and San Juan, 1860 and 1870 -- Appendix 3. Household Composition by Group, Santa Ana and San Juan, 1860-1880 -- Appendix 4. Employment by Select Occupation and Group, Orange County, 1900-1910 -- Appendix 5. INdices of Barrio Formation in Santa Ana: LOgan, Artesia and Delhi Barrios, 1916-1947
Summary Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mission and court archives, oral histories, Spanish language plays, census and tax records) to build a new picture of rural society and social change. A borderlands and Chicano history, Haas's work provides a richly textured study of events that took place in and around San Juan Capistrano and Santa An
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mexican Americans -- Land tenure -- California -- San Juan Capistrano
Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- California -- San Juan Capistrano
Mexican Americans -- Land tenure -- California -- Santa Ana
Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- California -- Santa Ana
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Indians of North America -- Land tenure
Mexican Americans -- Land tenure
SUBJECT San Juan Capistrano (Calif.) -- History
Santa Ana (Calif.) -- History
Subject California -- San Juan Capistrano
California -- Santa Ana
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520918443
0520918444
0585307784
9780585307787