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| Part One Prologue |
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1 Californians and Their History: Myths and Realities |
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The Traditional View of California History |
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Reconsidering California History |
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12 | (2) |
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Water, Flood, and Drought |
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20 | (1) |
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California Before Europeans Came |
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Native Origins, Languages, and Populations |
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Economy: Industry and Trade |
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Science, Ecology, and Agriculture |
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On the Eve of European Colonization |
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| Part Two Europeans and Indians: The California Experience |
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5 Explorers and Native Peoples |
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53 | (2) |
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Francis Drake in California |
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56 | (3) |
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The Manila Galleon and Revived Exploration |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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Explorers and Natives: An Assessment |
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62 | (3) |
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Feature Essay: Junipero Serra Saint...or Sinner? |
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67 | (2) |
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The Founding of San Francisco |
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69 | (1) |
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Economic Development, Labor, and Society |
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The European Conquest of Nature |
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Missions and the Acculturation of Native Peoples |
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75 | (2) |
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Early Indian Resistance: The San Diego and Colorado River Rebellions |
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Disease, Fugitives, and Horses |
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78 | (2) |
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Spanish California on the Eve of Mexican Independence |
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| Part Three The Pastoral Era |
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8 Mexican California 1821-1848 |
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Establishment of Mexican Government in California |
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Secularization of the Missions |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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Secularization Under Figueroa |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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The Hide-and-Tallow Trade |
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102 | (2) |
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Rancho and Pueblo Society |
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104 | (6) |
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Feature Essay: Rancho San Pedro A Classic Spanish Land Grant |
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107 | (3) |
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9 Foreign Penetration of California |
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110 | (15) |
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The Russians in California |
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111 | (1) |
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The Hide-and-Tallow Traders |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (2) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (2) |
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The Breakdown of Mexican Government |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (2) |
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120 | (1) |
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Culture in Spanish and Mexican California |
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| Part Four Gold and the Americanization of California |
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125 | (50) |
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10 Dame Shirley: A Yankee Lady in the California Mines |
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127 | (12) |
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139 | (17) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (2) |
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Feature Essay: Sam Brannan Forty-Eighter |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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The Foreign Miners' Tax Law of 1850 |
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151 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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Feature Essay Free State Slavery California's Indian Act of 1850 |
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152 | (1) |
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Solving the "Indian Problem" |
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152 | (4) |
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12 The Thirty-First State |
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156 | (19) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (2) |
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159 | (1) |
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Early Political Rumbles: Broderick and Gwin |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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Vigilante Justice: "Their Majesties the Mob" |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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African American Argonauts |
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166 | (1) |
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Californios and the Land-Grant Question |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (1) |
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Land Speculation on the Urban Frontier |
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170 | (1) |
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171 | (4) |
| Part Five The Railroad Era |
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175 | (56) |
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13 Confrontation at Mussel Slough 1880 |
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177 | (14) |
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14 The Coming of the Railroad |
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Transportation Problems in Gold Rush California |
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191 | (1) |
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Early Transcontinental Railroad Schemes |
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192 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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Theodore Judah, Visionary |
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192 | (1) |
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The Founding of the Central Pacific Railroad |
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193 | (1) |
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The Civil War and the Transcontinental Railway |
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194 | (1) |
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The Central Pacific Besieged |
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195 | (1) |
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The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 |
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195 | (1) |
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Local Subsidies and Mounting Opposition to the Central Pacific |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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Judah versus the Associates |
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197 | (2) |
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Feature Essay: The Big Four Villains or Heroes? |
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198 | (1) |
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The Pacific Railway Act of 1864 |
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Completing the Transcontinental Railway |
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200 | (2) |
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The Associates and the Emerging Rail System |
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202 | (4) |
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The Southern Pacific Company |
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206 | (1) |
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15 California's Railway Era: Economic Development and Social Unrest |
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207 | (24) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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San Francisco: From Instant City to Pacific Metropolis |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (1) |
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Railroads and the Bonanza Wheat Era |
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211 | (1) |
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Fruit and Specialty-Crop Farming |
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212 | (3) |
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Feature Essay: The University of California and the Beginning of Higher Education |
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213 | (2) |
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215 | (1) |
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The Assault on Nature and the Beginning of Environmental Concern |
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216 | (3) |
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Feature Essay John Muir and Early Wilderness Preservation |
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217 | (2) |
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Social and Political Conflict |
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219 | (2) |
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221 | (1) |
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Early Labor Movements and the "Indispensable Enemy" |
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222 | (1) |
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The Workingmen's Party of California |
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223 | (1) |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (1) |
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Culture in the Railroad Era |
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225 | (6) |
| Part Six California and the Nation: 1880-1920 |
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Feature Essay: Eadweard Muybridge Photographer of the City |
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232 | (3) |
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16 "This Was Our Place": Asian immigrants and Delta Agriculture |
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235 | (10) |
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17 Beginnings of Modern California |
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245 | (16) |
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245 | (1) |
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Population: The "One Great Desideratum" |
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246 | (2) |
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248 | (2) |
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250 | (1) |
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Fighting Against Monopoly |
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251 | (1) |
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Political Change in the 1890s |
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252 | (1) |
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The Free Harbor Fight and the Funding Bill |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (1) |
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254 | (1) |
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The Urban Scene: Prelude to Progressivism |
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255 | (1) |
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256 | (5) |
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18 Progressive California |
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Abraham Ruef and the Union Labor Party |
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262 | (1) |
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263 | (1) |
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The Lincoln-Roosevelt League |
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264 | (2) |
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Hiram Johnson and the Election of 1910 |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (1) |
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The Sixth Star: California Women Gain the Vote |
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269 | (5) |
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Feature Essay: California's "First Four" Anna Saylor, Elizabeth Hughes, Grace Dorris, and Esto Broughton |
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271 | (3) |
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Labor in Progressive California |
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274 | (2) |
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Feature Essay: Jack London Sometimes Socialist |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (1) |
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The Criminal Syndicalism Act, 1919 |
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277 | (1) |
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Race in Progressive California |
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278 | (2) |
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Water for Cities: Hetch Hetchy and Owens Valley |
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280 | (1) |
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281 | (2) |
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Turn-of-the-Century California Culture |
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283 | (4) |
| Part Seven California Between the wars: 1920-1940 |
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19 Super Sister: Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles |
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20 Prosperity and the Rise of Southern California |
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299 | (20) |
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Water and Power for Growth |
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300 | (1) |
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California and the Automobile |
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301 | (4) |
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Feature Essay: Henry E. Huntington and the "Big Red Cars" |
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302 | (2) |
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Feature Essay: How Do You Say M-O-T-E-L? A California Original |
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304 | (1) |
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305 | (1) |
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306 | (1) |
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307 | (2) |
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309 | (1) |
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The Decline of Organized Labor |
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310 | (1) |
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Urban Rivalry and the Military |
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310 | (1) |
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311 | (3) |
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312 | (2) |
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Robinson Jeffers Poet of the Coast Religion |
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314 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (4) |
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319 | (20) |
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Impacts of the Depression |
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320 | (1) |
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The New Deal in California |
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321 | (1) |
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Feature Essay: Dorothea Lange and Florence Thompson The Photographer and the Migrant Mother |
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322 | (1) |
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322 | (2) |
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The Central Valley Project |
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324 | (2) |
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326 | (2) |
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The Open Shop in Los Angeles |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (2) |
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Feature Essay: John Steinbeck Bard of the Long Valley |
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330 | (1) |
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331 | (1) |
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Merriam's "Pragmatic Conservatism" |
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332 | (1) |
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Utopian Schemes and the Pension Movement |
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333 | (1) |
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Olson's "New Deal for California" |
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334 | (1) |
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The Cultural Scene between the Wars |
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335 | (4) |
| Part Eight World War II and Postwar Expansion |
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339 | (40) |
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340 | (12) |
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23 World War II: The Beginning of an Era |
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352 | (12) |
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California in World War II |
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353 | (1) |
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The Impact of Pearl Harbor |
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353 | (1) |
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The Rise of the Aircraft Industry |
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354 | (1) |
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355 | (1) |
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Other War Industries and Agriculture |
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355 | (2) |
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357 | (1) |
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357 | (1) |
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Incarceration of Japanese Americans |
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358 | (2) |
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Wartime Community Dynamics |
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360 | (1) |
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361 | (1) |
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The Warren Administrations |
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362 | (2) |
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24 Amazing Growth: California after World War II |
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364 | (15) |
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365 | (1) |
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365 | (1) |
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The Defense and Aerospace Industries |
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366 | (1) |
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367 | (1) |
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368 | (2) |
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370 | (1) |
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371 | (1) |
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371 | (1) |
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Postwar Politics and the Anticommunist Crusade |
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371 | (3) |
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Feature Essay: Walt Disney Last of the Movie Moguls |
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372 | (2) |
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Goodwin Knight Moves Left |
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374 | (1) |
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California Culture in Transition |
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375 | (20) |
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Feature Essay: Jack Kerouac King of the Beats |
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376 | (3) |
| Part Nine The 1960s and After |
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379 | (62) |
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25 Prologues to Violence: Genesis of a Ghetto |
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380 | (15) |
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26 Dreams Deferred: The Long 1960s |
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395 | (20) |
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396 | (1) |
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The California Water Plan |
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397 | (2) |
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399 | (2) |
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Reforms in Politics and Government |
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401 | (1) |
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401 | (1) |
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402 | (1) |
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The Politics of Confrontation |
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403 | (9) |
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405 | (5) |
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Feature Essay: Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and "La Causa" |
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410 | (2) |
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The Union as Social Movement More Students in Revolt |
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412 | (1) |
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413 | (2) |
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27 Eras of Limits: Reagan, Brown, and Deukmejian |
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415 | (26) |
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The Rise of Ronald Reagan |
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415 | (1) |
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416 | (1) |
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417 | (1) |
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The Second Reagan Administration |
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418 | (1) |
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The Second Governor Brown |
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419 | (1) |
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420 | (1) |
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420 | (2) |
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422 | (1) |
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422 | (1) |
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423 | (1) |
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424 | (1) |
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Energy Crisis and Response |
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425 | (1) |
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426 | (2) |
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Another "Boom of the '80s" |
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428 | (1) |
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429 | (3) |
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432 | (3) |
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Feature Essay: Jefe Rojas The Vaqueros' Homer |
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433 | (2) |
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435 | (6) |
| Part Ten Environment and Society: Crisis in the Most Populous State |
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28 California: Eden or Wasteland? The "Not So Golden State" |
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443 | (25) |
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Twentieth-Century Conservation |
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445 | (1) |
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From Conservation to Environmentalism: The 1960s |
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446 | (1) |
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Building a Regulatory Framework |
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447 | (1) |
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448 | (1) |
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449 | (1) |
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450 | (2) |
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The Delta and the Peripheral Canal |
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452 | (2) |
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The Limits of Regional Planning: The Coast and Lake Tahoe |
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454 | (3) |
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Feature Essay: Ansel Adams Californian |
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Parks and Wilderness Areas |
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457 | (2) |
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459 | (1) |
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Mono Lake and the Public Trust Doctrine |
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460 | (1) |
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460 | (1) |
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Reaction against Environmental Reform |
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461 | (2) |
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"There Is No Plan B": California and World Climate Change |
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463 | (4) |
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The Legacy of Environmental Reform |
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467 | (1) |
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29 Fin de Siecle California |
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468 | (15) |
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468 | (1) |
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469 | (1) |
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469 | (1) |
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470 | (1) |
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471 | (2) |
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473 | (1) |
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474 | (1) |
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475 | (1) |
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476 | (1) |
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477 | (1) |
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478 | (2) |
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Awakening "the Sleeping Giant" |
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480 | (1) |
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Republican "Wipeout" and the 1998 Governor's Race |
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481 | (2) |
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30 California in the New Millennium |
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483 | (22) |
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483 | (2) |
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New Century, Old Politics |
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485 | (1) |
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485 | (3) |
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The Price of Energy Deregulation |
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488 | (1) |
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489 | (1) |
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The Housing "Bubble" and Great Recession |
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490 | (2) |
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492 | (1) |
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The Legacy of Progressivism |
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493 | (1) |
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493 | (4) |
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497 | (1) |
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Is the Great Recession Over? |
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498 | (3) |
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501 | (1515) |
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502 | (2) |
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California in the Age of Trump |
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504 | (1) |
| Suggested Readings |
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505 | (30) |
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