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New Directions In California History: A Book of Readings
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by James J Rawls
Sales Rank: 1705796
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Cover Type: Paperback with 399 pages
Published by: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/LanguagesEdition: 1st Edition February 1, 1988
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0070512531
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0070512535
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Book Description
This reader is designed for the history of California course taught in history and some Political Science departments in colleges and universities throughout California. Organized chronologically, the book covers a wide range of topics in the social, political, cultural and economic history of the state. -- (Softcover)
About The Author
James J. Rawls, an instructor of history at Diablo Valley College, received his B.A. in history from Stanford University. He was awarded an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, completing his doctoral dissertation under the guidance of Walton Bean. Dr. Rawls also has taught California history as a visiting associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as the Reviews Editor of California History, the journal of the California Historical Society. He is the author of Indians of California: The Changing Image and Chief Red Fox is Dead: A History of Native Americans since 1945, coauthor of Land of Liberty: A United States History and California: Adventures in Time and Space, editor of New Directions in California History: A Book of Readings and California History: Teaching with Primary Sources, and coeditor of A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California and California: A Place, A People, A Dream. His articles and reviews have appeared in such publications as Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, and American Indian Quarterly.
Reader Reviews
This book is an excellent companion to Rawls/Bean's "California, An Interpretive History", and may very well stand on its own for those interested in the topic. It is a collection of writings from a variety of historians on different topics relevant to California History. Each section is fairly short, surprisingly well written and engaging, for a History text, and best of all, well-documented. A common concern these days is the idea of "revisionist history". Each of these sections follows an Editor's Introduction, which not only offers the author's credentials in the topic, but the source materials they used to derive their conclusions. The text clearly designates cases where the source materials, while first hand accounts, could still contain bias or inaccuracy. In cases where the author himself may show bias in the topic, the introduction points out this bias, but also makes a case for why that bias may be relevant overall.
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