Search -
California: A Study of American Character : From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (California Legacy Book)
California A Study of American Character From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco - California Legacy Book Author:Josiah Royce, Josiah Royce First published in 1886, Josiah Royce's California: A Study of American Character chronicles the early history of American California. But unlike historians of the West who view the conquering American spirit with unmitigated admiration, Royce sought to tell a fuller story, to bridge the distance between the West of the imagination and th... more »e West as it truly was. Preferring fact to myth and optimism to despair, Royce wrote history that acknowledges what was truly brave and heroic while revealing the moral consequences of the American conquest of Mexican California. His history of the West is not a simple story of either vindication or shame, but a pioneering work of complexity and multiplicity that predates by nearly a century what we now call the new western history. With a new foreword by historian Ronald A. Wells.« less