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Overview
Overview
Osborne's work is the first history text to explore the sweep of California's past in relationship to its connections within the maritime world of the Pacific Basin.
- Presents a provocative and original interpretation of the entire span of California history
- Reveals how the area's Pacific Basin connections have shaped the Golden State's past
- Refutes the widely held notion among historians that California was isolated before the onset of the American period in the mid-1800s
- Represents the first text to draw on anthropologist Jon Erlandson's findings that California's first human inhabitants were likely prehistoric Asian seafarers who navigated the Pacific Rim coastline
- Includes instructor resources in an online companion site: www.wiley.com/go/osborne
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Osborne, Thomas J.
- ISBN: 9781405194532
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.60 x 0.90
- Number Of Pages: 434
- Publication Year: 2013
Language:
English