Towns in Mexican Alta California
Author | : Robert Wayne Eversole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1198 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Wayne Eversole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1198 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Antonio Maria Osio |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 1996-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299149749 |
Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
Author | : Heather Price-Wright |
Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2017-09-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1425832369 |
Alta California contained most of the land that makes up what is now the Southwest. In 1821, the land was controlled by Mexico. Its leaders made many changes including ending the Spanish mission system. Alta California became more diverse as its economy grew and changed. Explore the history of Alta California with this primary source title that builds students reading skills and promotes civics and social studies content literacy. The dynamic primary source maps, letters, and images provide authentic nonfiction reading materials and keep students interested in learning. Text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents. This book connects to California state studies standards and the NCSS/C3 Framework and features appropriately leveled text to accommodate different reading levels. Additional features include Read and Respond and a culminating activity that prompt students to dive deeper into the text for additional reading and learning.
Author | : Heather Price-Wright |
Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-11-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1425832555 |
Alta California contained most of the land that makes up what is now the Southwest. In 1821, the land was controlled by Mexico. Its leaders made many changes including ending the Spanish mission system. Alta California became more diverse as its economy grew and changed. Explore the history of Alta California with this primary source title that builds students reading skills and promotes civics and social studies content literacy. The dynamic primary source maps, letters, and images provide authentic nonfiction reading materials and keep students interested in learning. Text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents. This book connects to California state studies standards and the NCSS/C3 Framework and features appropriately leveled text to accommodate different reading levels. Additional features include Read and Respond and a culminating activity that prompt students to dive deeper into the text for additional reading and learning.
Author | : Antonio Franco Coronel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
A work in which the author relates the particulars of what occurred in the southern parts during the years of 1846-1847, giving also some idea of manners and customs.
Author | : Jean Bruce Poole |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780892366620 |
Founded in 1781 by pioneers from what is today northern Mexico, El Pueblo de Los Angeles mirrors the history and heritage of the city to which it gave birth. When the pueblo was the capital of Mexico’s Alta California, the region’s rancheros came here to celebrate mass or to attend fiestas in the historic Plaza. Following California’s statehood in 1850, the pueblo for a time ranked among the most lawless towns of the American West. American speculators, wealthy rancheros, and Italian wine merchants crowded its dusty streets. The town’s first barrio and the vibrant precincts of Old Chinatown soon grew up nearby. As Los Angeles burgeoned into a modern metropolis, its historic heart fell into ruin, to be revitalized by the creation in 1930 of the romantic Mexican marketplace at Olvera Street. Here, two years later, David Alfaro Siqueiros painted the landmark mural América Tropical, whose story is a fascinating tale of art, politics, and censorship. In the decades since, the pueblo has remained one of Southern California’s most enduring and most complex cultural symbols. El Pueblo vividly recounts the story of the birthplace of Los Angeles. An engaging historical narrative is complemented by abundant illustrations and a tour of the pueblo’s historic buildings. The book also describes initiatives to preserve the pueblo’s rich heritage and considers the significance of its multicultural legacy for Los Angeles today
Author | : Harry W. Crosby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.
Author | : James Ohio Pattie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas L. Davis |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2003-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780823962846 |
Describes the daily life of townspeople and ranchers at early California missions.
Author | : Gilbert R. Cruz |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780890966778 |
Three pillars supported the empire of New Spain. The first two, the presidio and the mission, have lived on in history and the popular imagination. The third, less studied and less understood, has lived on in the traditions of local self-governance and the distinctive cultural and social patterns of the Southwest. That third pillar is the civil settlement, or town, with its distinctive governmental institutions. Town councils, or cabildos, brought to the northern frontier a high degree of law and order, patterns of local government, a rough democracy, and the principle of justice based on rule of law. The towns populated the Borderlands, introduced industry, and contributed to the economy and defense of Hispanic territories. Let There Be Towns presents the origins and contributions of six of the early settlements of New Spain--San Antonio and Laredo in Spanish Texas, Santa Fe and El Paso in Nuevo Mexico, and San Jose and Los Angeles in Alta California. In Let There Be Towns, Gilbert R. Cruz carefully assesses their importance as part of the Spanish government's policy for implanting in North America the linguistic, social, religious, and political values of the crown. Ten years of archival study, as well as travel through Spain and Mexico researching the origins of colonial towns in parent institutions, have led the author to the provocative conclusion that town settlements and their civil governments were even more important than the more glamorous missions and presidios in establishing Spanish dominion over the northern Borderlands.