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Contest for California: From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest (Volume 2) (Before Gold: California under Spain and M,New
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Californias 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, awardwinning 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 participantsNative American, Spanish, Mexican, and AngloAmericanto have their say. Soldiers, settlers, missionaries, and merchants testify to the heroic and commonplace, the colorful and tragic, in Californias preAmerican history.Even as he acknowledges the dark side of this story, Hyslop avoids a simplistic perspective. Moving beyond the polarities that have marked latetwentiethcentury California historiography, he offers nuanced portraits of such controversial figures as Junpero Serra and treats the Californios and their distinctive Hispanic culture with a respect lacking in earlier histories. Attentive to tensions within the invading groupspriests and the military during the Spanish era, merchants and settlers during the American erahe also never loses sight of their impact on the original inhabitants of the region: Californias 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 muchneeded alternative history of early California and its evolution from Spanish colony to American territory.
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