The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cul

The final of four volumes in the 'California History Sesquicentennial Series', this text compiles original essays which treat the consequential role of post-Gol

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Winner, Book Award, Associaton for Borderland Studies, 2008 The U.S. and Mexican border regions have experienced rapid demographic and economic growth over the

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