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Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846

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Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846

The go-to book for primary source material on early California.

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Author: Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz
Tag: Primary Sources
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Year: 2015
ASIN: B014LWP1HO
ISBN: 9780806151380
About the Book

This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and settlers, friends and neighbors spill from these pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus.

About the Author
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz
Rose Marie Beebe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Santa Clara University. Robert M Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. He is the author, together with Rose Marie Beebe, of a number of books dealing with California during its Spanish and Mexican eras, including recently To Toil in That Vineyard of the Lord: Contemporary Scholarship on Junípero Serra (2010), and Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary (2015).
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