1st Edition
From Acorns to Warehouses Historical Political Economy of Southern California’s Inland Empire
By Thomas C Patterson
Copyright 2015
284 Pages
by
Routledge
283 Pages
by
Routledge
283 Pages
by
Routledge
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Thomas C. Patterson’s large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces the social, political and economic changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago to the present. Framing his discussion of this region in the general growth trajectory of California’s socio-economic history, he is able to connect landscape, resources, wealth, labor, and... Read more
Chapter 1 Living Landscapes; Chapter 2 The First Nations; Chapter 3 The Spanish Colonial Economy in Southern California; Chapter 4 Southern California in the Wake of Mexico’s War of Independence, 1822–1848; Chapter 5 The American Empire and Southern California, 1836 to Early 1870s; Chapter 6 Land, Railroads, and the Rise of the Orange Empire, 1860–1930; Chapter 7 A Regional Perspective on the Orange Empire and its Neighbors, 1875–1945; Chapter 8 War, Real Estate, and the Rise of the Inland Empire, 1940–1978; Chapter 9 From Inland Empire to Warehouse Empire, 1980–2014; Chapter 10 Toward the Historical Political Economy of a Region; Chapter 11 Epilogue;
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Authored by Patterson, Thomas C
