California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850

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University of California Press, 14. apr. 1989 - 499 strani
This book began as a venture to collect official and unofficial documents relating to the interval of American military rule. There proved to be thousands, the writings of Presidents, executive officers, and congressmen, naval and military personnel, governors, settlers, and citizens-routine, familiar, wheedling, seductive, blustering, commanding. As the quantity grew, they seemed eager to be heard. But the documents exhibit the traits of their makers. Containing neither the whole truth nor nothing but the truth, they offer many-sided versions of what people believed or wanted others to accept; they must be taken with a grain of salt. Long, sometimes garbled, and always incomplete, the record requires assessment, a referee to appraise the evidence and form his own imperfect conclusions. And any curious or dissenting reader may, by consulting the numerous cited sources, make his own interpretations. References, whenever possible, have been made to materials in some printed form, leading an inquirer to a vast array of historical evidence.  Everything herein happened, or so the record tells, and if an assumption has been made, it is that men, issues, and events can be interesting in their own right, without exaggeration. "To exaggerate," a knowing urban child recently observed, "means you put in something to make it more exciting" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1978).
 

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Alta California
14
ANNEXATION
30
California by SeaAlien Advances
31
California by LandAmericans West
39
Antecedents to Conquest
45
Incident at Gavilán
61
First in War
74
Sloats Conquest 1846
115
War and Peace
219
Fight OnKearny Prevails
244
Kearnys Rule
264
Military or CivilMason Governs
279
End of the WarMasons Dilemma
303
Consent of the GovernedRileys Rule
317
Constitutional GovernmentThe Last of the Generals
338
Notes
355

Stocktons Conquest
137
Paradise LostGillespies Fall
159
Advent of Kearny
174
Paradise Regained
193
Sources Cited in the Text
425
Index
447
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Neal Harlow was on the staffs of the Bancroft Library, the California State Library, and the library of UCLA; he was Head Librarian at the University of British Columbia for a decade and was Dean of the Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers University, from 1961 to 1969.

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