This work is a sweeping history of the region from the time of its indigenous people to the 21st century. Chapters cover the Spanish, Mexican, Victorian, WWI and WWII eras and the postwar boom, up to
Engstrand (history, U. of San Diego) sheds light on California's second largest city and the US's seventh largest by tracing its roots to its earliest Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and American population
When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.Mexican War in 1848, vast territories were officially within the borders of the United States. This bilingual volume, with all text printed in both E
In 1792, Spanish naval officer and explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed from San Blas, Mexico, to Nootka Sound, on the west coast of present-day Vancouver Island. For nearly three ye
