California Conquered : The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850 / Neal Harlow; ed. by Neal Harlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harlow, Neal, Author.

Contributor:

Harlow, Neal, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1982]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps and Illustrations

Aviso

APPROACHES

1 Dress Rehearsal- Jones' War (1842)

2 Alta California

3 California by Sea- Alien Advances

4 California by Land- Americans West

5 Antecedents to Conquest

CONQUEST

6 Incident at Gavilán

7 First in War

8 The Bears

9 Sloat s Conquest (1846)

10 Stocktons Conquest

11 Paradise Lost- Gillespie's Fall

12 Advent of Kearny

13 Paradise Regained

14 War and Peace

15 Fight On- Kearny Prevails

16 Kearny's Rule

17 Military or Civil- Mason Governs

ANNEXATION

18 End of the War- Mason s Dilemma

19 Consent of the Governed- Riley s Rule

20 Constitutional Government- The Last of the Generals

Notes

Sources Cited in the Text

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35248-3

OCLC:

1414456494