Table of Contents: “…The Discovery of 1848 -- The Argonauts -- Camp Life -- Nativism and Racism -- The Legendary Life of Joaquin Murrieta -- California Transformed -- Conquest of the Californios -- Conquest of the Indians -- Economic Transformation -- The Golden State -- A New Direction -- California and the Crisis of the Union, 1850-1870 -- Crisis and Conflict in the 1850s -- The Compromise of 1850 -- San Francisco's Crisis of Political Legitimacy: Vigilantism in the 1850s -- Violence and Displacement: California Indians in the 1850s -- The Politics of Land and Culture -- Californians and the Crisis of the Union -- Fighting Slavery in California -- Sectional Issues and California Politics -- California and Civil War -- Reconstruction and New Understandings of Citizenship -- Economic Growth in a Time of National Crisis -- The Transformation of Mining -- Economic Diversification -- Transportation -- Tying Together the Union with Iron -- New Social and Cultural Patterns -- Gender Roles and New Social Institutions -- The Growth of Religious Toleration -- Writing the Gold Rush -- California in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 -- The Economic Transformation of California and the West -- Railroad Expansion -- Mining and Finance -- Agriculture -- Water -- Rise of Organized Labor -- San Francisco: Metropolis of the West -- New Social Patterns -- Education -- Changing Gender Roles -- California Indians -- Changing Patterns of Ethnicity -- Politics -- Political Discontent in the 1870s -- The Second Constitutional Convention, 1878 -- Politics in the 1880s -- Political Realignment in the 1890s -- California and the World: War with Spain and Acquisition of the Philippines -- Cultural Expression -- California in the Progressive Era, 1895-1920 -- The Origins of California Progressivism -- The Many Shapes of Progressivism -- Municipal Reform: Los Angeles -- Municipal Reform: San Francisco -- Organized Labor in the Progressive Era -- Efforts to Reform State Government Before 1910 -- Social and Economic Change in the Progressive Era -- Immigration and Ethnic Relations -- Economic Changes -- Earthquake and Fire in 1906 -- Water Wars -- California in the World Economy -- California Progressivism, 1910-1920 -- Hiram Johnson and the Victory of the Progressives, 1910-1911 -- California Progressives and the Presidential Election of 1912 -- Radicals in a Progressive Era -- A Second Flood of Reform, 1913 -- The Progressive Tide Recedes, 1914-1920 -- Californians in a World of Revolutions and War -- Californians and the Mexican Revolution -- War in Europe and Conflict at Home -- Californians Go to War -- Peace and the Backwash of War -- The Meaning of Progressivism for Californians -- California Between the Wars, 1919-1941 -- The Rise of Los Angeles: Twentieth-Century Metropolis -- The Economic Basis for Growth -- The Automobile and the Growth of Southern California -- Prosperity Decade: The 1920s -- Politics in a Time of Prosperity -- New Economic Patterns -- New Social Patterns -- Cultural Expression -- Depression Decade: The 1930s -- Impact of the Great Depression -- Labor Conflict -- Federal Politics: The Impact of the New Deal -- State Politics: The Rise of the Democrats -- Cultural Expression During the Depression Decade -- California on the Eve of War -- World War II and the Great Transformation -- Economic Expansion -- Overview of the War's Economic Impact -- The Aircraft Industry -- Shipbuilding -- Agriculture -- Other Industry -- Japanese Relocation and Internment -- The Unfolding Tragedy -- Relocation and Internment -- Population Growth and Diversity -- Black Migration -- New Challenges and Opportunities -- Shifting Gender Relations -- Daily Life and Culture -- Wartime Challenges -- Entertainment -- Political Transformation -- Change from the Grassroots -- Change at the Top -- Postwar California: Prosperity and Discontent in the Golden State -- Unbridled Growth -- Industrial Growth and Organized Labor -- Education -- Population and Suburban Growth -- Transportation, Energy, Water Resources, and Environmental Pollution -- Postwar Politics -- California's Red Scare -- Warren and Knight -- Edmund G. …”

Table of Contents: “…Destruction and rebirth -- Civic development -- New immigrant groups : Italians and Japanese -- Labor and politics -- Civic construction and progressivism -- 5. The American Singapore, 1930-1945. …”