Recuerdos ? Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769?1849 (2 Volume Set)

Mariano Guadalu Vallejo

ISBN 10: 0806190779 / ISBN 13: 9780806190778

Edité par John Wiley & Sons, John Wiley & Sons, 2023

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• Titre: Recuerdos ? Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769?1849 (2 Volume Set)
• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons, John Wiley & Sons
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0806190779
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780806190778
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 246 L x 168 H x 106 P (en millimètres) 246 millimètres de largeur par 168 millimètres de hauteur par 106 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 2914 grammes

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Synopsis

A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well--a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state's recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush by someone who resided in California at the time.

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807-90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. With his project, undertaken for historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vallejo sought to correct misrepresentations of California's past, which dismissed as insignificant the pre-gold rush Spanish and Mexican periods--conflated into one "Mission era."

Instead, Vallejo's history emphasized the role of the military in the Spanish colonization of California and argued that the missionaries after Junípero Serra, with their medieval ideas, had actually retarded the development of California until secularization in the early 1830s. Culture, he contended, was of intense interest to the Californio people, as was the education of children. His accounts of Indigenous peoples, while often sympathetic, were also characteristic of his time: he and other California military leaders, Vallejo maintained, had successfully subdued "hostile" Indians and established mutually beneficial relationships with others.

Out of keeping with Bancroft's American triumphalism, Vallejo's monumental project was consigned to the archives. With their deft translation and commentary, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz--authors of a companion volume on Vallejo's work--have brought to light a remarkable perspective, often firsthand, on important events in early California history. Their efforts restore a critical chapter to the story of California and the American West.

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Rose Marie Beebe is Professor Emerita of Spanish Literature at Santa Clara University.

Robert M. Senkewicz is Professor Emeritus of History at Santa Clara University. Beebe and Senkewicz are the coauthors of Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary.