A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles

A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles
Author: Susanna Bryant Dakin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520338553

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1939.

A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles

A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles
Author: Susanna Bryant Dakin
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520338545

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1939.

El Cinco de Mayo

El Cinco de Mayo
Author: David Hayes-Bautista
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2012-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520951794

Why is Cinco de Mayo—a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862—so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time—it embodied immigrant nostalgia in the 1930s, U.S. patriotism during World War II, Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, and commercial intentions in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, it continues to reflect the aspirations of a community that is engaged, empowered, and expanding.

Historic Pasadena

Historic Pasadena
Author: Ann Scheid
Publisher: HPN Books
Total Pages: 215
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 189361901X

American Encounters

American Encounters
Author: Peter C. Mancall
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2000
Genre: Indian Removal, 1813-1903
ISBN: 9780415923750

A collection of articles that describe the relationships and encounters between Native Americans and Europeans throughout American history.

The American West

The American West
Author: Walter Nugent
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 1999-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253028167

"Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles." —Nebraska History Designed for survey courses—yet in-depth enough to support intensive discussion—these seventeen classic essays traverse the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, from homesteading and mining to the Great Depression and World War II. Provocative and illuminating.

Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West

Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West
Author: Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 945
Release: 2006-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1412905508

Through sweeping entries, focused biographies, community histories, economic enterprise analysis, and demographic studies, this Encyclopedia presents the tapestry of the West and its population during various periods of migration. Examines the settling of the West and includes coverage of movements of American Indians, African Americans, and the often-forgotten role of women in the West's development.

The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846

The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846
Author: David J. Weber
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826306036

Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.