Waubonsee Community College

Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936, Lisbeth Haas

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index

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Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936

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Lisbeth Haas

Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mission and court archives, oral histories, Spanish language plays, census and tax records) to build a new picture of rural society and social change. A borderlands and Chicano history, Haas's work provides a richly textured study of events that took place in and around San Juan Capistrano and Santa An