New Directions in California History: A Book of Readings
This reader is designed for the history of California course taught in history and some Political Science departments in colleges and universities throughout California. Organized chronologically, the book covers a wide range of topics in the social, political, cultural and economic history of the state. -- (Softcover)
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0070512531
ISBN13:9780070512535
Release Date:February 1988
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Length:399 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Surprisingly interesting for a text
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This book is an excellent companion to Rawls/Bean's "California, An Interpretive History", and may very well stand on its own for those interested in the topic. It is a collection of writings from a variety of historians on different topics relevant to California History. Each section is fairly short, surprisingly well written and engaging, for a History text, and best of all, well-documented. A common concern these days is the idea of "revisionist history". Each of these sections follows an Editor's Introduction, which not only offers the author's credentials in the topic, but the source materials they used to derive their conclusions. The text clearly designates cases where the source materials, while first hand accounts, could still contain bias or inaccuracy. In cases where the author himself may show bias in the topic, the introduction points out this bias, but also makes a case for why that bias may be relevant overall.
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