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California: The Great Exception Book

In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years--its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns. As he examined the reasons for the prodigious growth and productivity that have characterized California since the Gold Rush, he praised the vitality of the new citizens who had come from all over the world to populate the state in a very short time. But he also made clear how brutally the new Californians dealt with "the Indian problem," the water problem, and the need for migrant labor to facilitate California's massive and highly profitable agricultural industry. As we look back now on 150 years of statehood, it is particularly useful to place the events of the past fifty years in the context of McWilliams's assessment in California: The Great Exception. Lewis Lapham has written a new foreword for this edition. "Still the single best analysis of California's distinctive path of economic and social development, by the state's most accurate observer." --Richard Walker, University of California, Berkeley "The classic account of the titanic social conflicts that have shaped California as a unique state-nation on the Pacific." --Mike Davis, author of City of QuartzRead More

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  • 0520218930
  • 9780520218932
  • C McWilliams
  • 19 March 1999
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 391
  • New edition
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