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California Cultural Landscapes

Dean Fairbanks (Autor)

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277 Seiten

2012 | Second Edition
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
9780757593543 (ISBN)

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Uses a broad overview approach to examine both temporal and spatial changes over the history of of California, taking into consideration the interaction of cultural groups. California’s diversity is tied into all aspects of the text: the natural resources, cultural identity, economics, physical setting, human behaviour, and politics.

California Cultural Landscapes utilises a broad overview approach in its examination of both temporal and spatial changes over the rich history of the state of California, taking into consideration the interaction of cultural groups. California's diversity is tied into all aspects of the text: the natural resources, cultural identity, economics, physical setting, human behavior, and politics. Incorporating geographical methods to provide students with the opportunity to develop an understanding of cultural and social institutions is the powerful approach used in each chapter.

The second edition further clarifies California geography and its impact upon the developing Golden State. This is accomplished through expanded maps, charts and graphics; and California in Focus sections highlighting specific places and their function. In addition, the final two chapters have been fully revised to emphasise California in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries focusing on the rise of a multiethnic, multicultural society strongly controlled by geography, with specifics addressing the pressures of immigration, economy, and changing patterns of California settlement.

California Cultural Landscapes is designed to help students with the following student learning objectives:

The physical processes that shape the patterns on California's surface
How these physical processes affect human cultures
How various cultures have modified the physical environment
The patterns of human migration and settlement through-out the region
The role of interethnic relations in shaping these migrations and settlement patterns

This textbook comes with a full colour student California Atlas and a companion website that is integrated within the text for increased comprehension and exploration.

Acknowledgements
Preface
UNDERSTANDING THE CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE: ELEMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY
Key Terms
Introduction
1.1 Five Themes of Geographical Science
1.2 Culture and Cultural Landscapes: Basic Themes
1.3 California Geography: Basic Themes to Explore
GEOLOGICAL HISTORY AND LANDFORMS
Key Terms
Introduction
2.1 Basic Geology: The Building Blocks
2.2 The Rock Cycle
2.3 California's Brief Geologic History
2.4 Geologic Natural Hazards: Living on Shaky Ground
2.5 Natural Landform Regions
Geomorphologically-based Landscapes
CALIFORNIA CLIMATE: SCALES AND GENERAL CONTROLS
Key Terms
Introduction
3.1 Global-Scale Controls
3.2 Regional Scale Controls-Influence of Topography
3.3 Small Scale Issues
3.4 Precipitation and Temperature: Spatial and Seasonal Patterns
3.5 Climatic Variation by Landform Region
CALIFORNIA FLORA AND FAUNA: DIVERSITY, HAZARDS AND CONSERVATION
Key Terms
Introduction
4.1 Bioregions of California
4.2 Determinates of Vegetation Patterns
4.3 Plant Communities-General Summary
4.4 Plant Diversity
4.5 Floral History
4.6 California Animal Diversity
4. 7 Endangered Species and Conservation
CALIFORNIA NATIVE AMERICAN LANDSCAPES
Key Terms
Introduction
5.1 Pre-contact California: California's First Peoples
5.2 California Native American ''Tribes," Tribelets and Cultural Areas
5.3 Ecological Impacts of Spanish Contact
5.4 Summary
SPANISH EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERN IN ALTA CALIFORNIA
Key Terms
Introduction
6.1 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Queen Califia! ...
Or Maybe Not . . .
6.2 Spanish Settlement Pattern
6.3 Postcards from a Decaying Empire
MEXICAN RANCHO ERA: SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT BY "LOS CALIFORNIOS"
Key Terms
Introduction
7.1 Trade and Economic Growth
7.2 Mexican Ranchos and Mission Secularization
7.3 A Rigid Cultural and Economic Landscape in a Mixed Blood Land
7.4 Pre-Gold Rush Scenario
GOLD RUSH: THE U.S. TAKES OVER-THE WORLD'S CULTURES MOVE INTO
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Key Terms
Introduction
8.1 Bear Flaggers, the Texas Game and a Game Changing Character John Fremont
8.2 Before the Gold Rush-California Before the Dawn
8.3 The Rush Is On: California the Distant Outpost
8.4 1849ers-The Argonauts and Rapid Growth in Northern California
8.5 California Life in the 1850s
8.6 U.S. Western Settlement Procedures-Homesteadin'
8. 7 Industrialization of Mining: Evolution of California Mining
8.8 Gold vs. Golden Grain: The Downfall of California Gold Mining
THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN CALIFORNIA AND THE RISE
OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Key Terms
Introduction
9.1 Early Transportation and Communication
9.2 Search for the Ideal Landscape
9.3 Southern California Development: 1880-1900-Development Of the Myth
9.4 The Progressive Era: Arts and Crafts Movement in Southern California
9.5 A Development Pattern Snapshot of California: 1880-1930
CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION AGRI-"CULTURES"
Key Terms
Introduction
10.1 California Agriculture and Reclamation
10.2 Do You Know What We Grow? California Agriculture and Cuisine
10.3 Irrigation Agri-"Cultures:" Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Indian Punjabis, and Mexicans
10.4 Factories in the Fields: Great Depression-Dust Bowl-Okies
URBAN-RURAL CALIFORNIA: WATER, LAND AND DESIGN
Key Terms
Introduction
11.1 Urban Water Imperialism: Stories from the South and North
11.2 Water Projects: Colorado River, the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project
11.3 California's Perennial Water Woes: What's Next for the Dry State?
THE RISE OF THE MODERN CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE
Key Terms
Introduction
12.1 World War IT: Industry, Infrastructure, and Immigration
12.2 Modem Cultural Conflict and Migration
12.3 Housing: Suburbanization-The Rise of the Tract Home
12.4 California's Era of Expanding the Mind and Resdess Youth Energy
CALIFORNIA: PARADISE OR GRITTY REALITY?
Key Terms
Introduction
13.1 Modem Geographical Cultural Patterns
13.2 California's Modem Cultural Regions Revealed
13.3 California: Eden or Wasteland?
13.4 Living the "La Vida Loca" in Mediterranean California

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.11.2012
Verlagsort	Iowa
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-13	9780757593543 / 9780757593543
Zustand	Neuware