Introductory Essays. Beyond Dreams and Disappointments: Defining California through Culture / James Quay -- Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State: Defining California through History / D J Waldie -- I Thought California Would Be Different: Defining California through Visual Culture / Catherine Gudis -- At the Crossroads: Defining California through the Global Economy / Richard A Walker -- Early California. Junípero Serra across the Generations / Steven W Hackel -- Alta California, the Pacific, and International Commerce before the Gold Rush / David Igler -- Licit and Illicit Unions: Engendering Mexican Society / Rosamaría Toruno Tanghetti -- Race and Immigration in the Nineteenth Century / Omar Valerio-Jiménez -- Conquest and Statehood. The 1850s / William Deverell -- Nature and Conquest: After the Deluge of '49 / Douglas Cazaux Sackman -- Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century / William Bauer -- Transformations in Late Nineteenth-century Rural California / David Vaught -- Transnational Commercial Orbits / Robert Chao Romero -- Reconsidering Conservation / Benjamin Heber Johnson -- Religion in the Early Twentieth Century / Darren Dochuk -- Immigration, Race, and the Progressives / Lon Kurashige -- New Deal, No Deal: The 1930s / Rick Wartzman -- Modern California. World War II / Arthur Verge -- Between Liberation and Oppression: Gay Politics and Identity / Daniel Hurewitz -- Making Multiculturalism: Immigration, Race, and the Twentieth Century / Kevin Allen Leonard -- The Long 1950s / Shana Bernstein -- Apportionment Politics, 1920-70 / Douglas Smith -- Under the Warm California Sun: Youth Culture in the Postwar Decades / Kirse Granat May -- At the Center of Indian Country / Nicolas G Rosenthal -- Sexual Revolutions and Sexual Politics / Josh Sides -- A Generation of Leaders, but Not in the Fields: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez / Miriam Pawel -- Hollywood Changes its Script / John Horn -- California Prospects in the Twenty-first Century. Immigration and Race in the Twenty-first Century / Bill Ong Hing -- Political Prospects in the Twenty-first Century / Raphael J Sonenshein -- Environmental Prospects in the Twenty-first Century / Jon Christensen.

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