xxi, 506 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This volume is a collection of primary documents of the writings of early California settlers. Taking the point of view of the Indians, settlers, missionaries, soldiers, and others who lived there, the editors offer letters, reports, reminiscences, and other documents that tell the inside story of California before the Gold Rush, from the time the Spanish arrived in the 1530s until the end of California's experience as a territory in the Mexican republic in the 1840s. This work is illustrated with maps, portraits, sketches, and early photographs as well as seven color plates of drawings depicting plant and animal life made by an 18th-century Czech priest." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 088764

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Title: Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of ...

Publisher: Santa Clara Unversity and Heyday Books, Santa Clara and Berkeley, CA

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

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Spanish and Mexican California is generally depicted through the journals of sea captains and other visitors. This groundbreaking collection offers another perspective: early California seen through the eyes of those who explored it, colonized it, and settled it in the age before the gold rush. Over sixty selections from letters, journals, official reports and proclamations, interrogations, and interviews--many newly translated and some presented in English for the first time--lay before us a surprisingly varied and dynamic portrait of an era generally dismissed as static, pastoral, or backward.

The first-person accounts are tied together with extensive introductions and commentaries by two well-known scholars. Together the selections and commentaries give us an intimate portrait as well as a broad context, placing the exploration and settlement of Alta California within the history of Baja California and the conquest of the New World.

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Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz teach Spanish and history, respectively, at Santa Clara University. They translated and edited The History of Alta California by Antonio Maria Osio and have written a number of essays on Spanish and Mexican California. Rose Marie is the president of the California Mission Studies Association. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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