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| Author | : Erwin Gustav Gudde |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 1949 |
| Genre | : Names, Geographical |
| ISBN | : |
"The story behind the naming of important mountains, counties, rivers, cities, lakes, capes, bays"--Cover.
| Author | : Erwin G. Gudde |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520266196 |
This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.
| Author | : William Bright |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 1998-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520920546 |
This is the new "pocket" version of the classic California Place Names, first published by California in 1949. Erwin G. Gudde's monumental work, which went through several editions during its author's lifetime, has now been released in an expanded and updated edition by William Bright. The abridged version, originally called 1000 California Place Names, has grown to a dynamic 1500 California Place Names in Bright's hands. Those who have used and enjoyed 1000 California Place Names through the decades will be glad to know that 1500 California Place Names is not only bigger but better. This handbook focuses on two sorts of names: those that are well-known as destinations or geographical features of the state, such as La Jolla, Tahoe, and Alcatraz, and those that demand attention because of their problematic origins, whether Spanish like Bodega and Chamisal or Native American like Aguanga and Siskiyou. Names of the major Indian tribes of California are included, since some of them have been directly adapted as place names and others have been the source of a variety of names. Bright incorporates his own recent research and that of other linguists and local historians, giving us a much deeper appreciation of the tangled ancestry many California names embody. Featuring phonetic pronunciations for all the Golden State's tongue-twisting names, this is in effect a brand new book, indispensable to California residents and visitors alike.
| Author | : David L. Durham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1676 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9781884995149 |
The definitive gazetteer of California. This book lists more than 50,000 geographical features including topographical features such as ridges, peaks, canyons and valleys; water features such as streams, lakes, waterfalls and springs; and cultural features such as cities, towns, crossroads and railroad sidings. Entries, divided into 11 multiple-county regions for ease of use, list general and specific locations for each feature as well as listing the United States government quadrangle map on which it appears. Many entries include information about who named the feature, when and why, as well as alternate or obsolete names. Each item of information is documented by citing the map, book or other source used. Approximately 11,000 cross references provide easy access to secondary names, as well as to key words in multiword English-language names. The work contains bibliographic information for each of the thousands of references cited and is completely indexed. This volume is useful to anyone interested in California history, geography or current events.
| Author | : William Henry Brewer |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 630 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780520027626 |
The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.
| Author | : Gregory Orfalea |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2014-01-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1451642725 |
The narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest.
| Author | : Erwin Gustav Gudde |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 1947 |
| Genre | : Names, Geographical |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Susan Gillman |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2022-05-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0226819655 |
The story of the “American Mediterranean,” both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America’s Mediterranean. Almost a century later, Southern California was hailed as “Our Mediterranean, Our Italy!” Although “American Mediterranean” is not a household phrase in the United States today, it once circulated widely in French, Spanish, and English as a term of art and folk idiom. In this book, Susan Gillman asks what cultural work is done by this kind of unsystematic, open-ended comparative thinking. American Mediterraneans tracks two centuries of this geohistorical concept, from Humboldt in the early 1800s, to writers of the 1890s reflecting on the Pacific world of the California coast, to writers of the 1930s and 40s speculating on the political past and future of the Caribbean. Following the term through its travels across disciplines and borders, American Mediterraneans reveals a little-known racialized history, one that paradoxically appealed to a range of race-neutral ideas and ideals.
