This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.

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 c

Explore the forgotten history of early California from the viewpoint of the working poor, blacks, immigrants, and other disenfranchised groups who rebelled agai

""Decline of the Californios" is one of those rare works that first gained fame for its pathbreaking and original nature, but which now maintains its status as

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.