1971, ISBN: 9780520016378

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Univerity of California Press], Buch mit geringen Lesespuren This striking addition to the literature of ethnic minorities deals with the early struggles of the S… Mehr…

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Univerity of California Press], Buch mit geringen Lesespuren This striking addition to the literature of ethnic minorities deals with the early struggles of the Spanish-speaking people of California. To those searching for solutions to current problems, hoping to improve educational and economic opportunities, and to increase the political influence of the Mexican-Americans, Mr. Pitt's exploration of the historical past seems to offer something less than optimism. "Pitt's fine monograph is therefore a novelty, for it is the work of a California historian knowledgeable in his state's history and sufficiently adventurous to enter upon unfamiliar ground. This book's major claim to originality is in the !ink that the author establishes between the bleak prospects of today's over 2 million Spanish-speaking Californians and the misfortunes of the 10,000 nineteenth-century Californios. 'The modern predicament of the Mexican-American jelled a century ago, from 1849 to 1885, and not after the turn of the century, as some suppose.' " —Moses Rischin, American Historical Review "lt focuses on the circumstances that caused the native-born Californians, or Californios, to lose numerical supremacy, land, political influence, and cultural dominance, and become a disadvantaged social group. lt is the story of the decline but no less of the ... perseverance of a subgroup which in the twentieth century was transformed into the largest minority in the Far West—the Mexican-Americans." —Choice "Professor Pitt should be commended for treading ground heretofore ignored by California historians and, also, for his recognition of the existence of the so-called Mexican-American in the history of California.... Pitt's monograph is a must for historians interested in the period as well as those wishing lively and interesting reading." —Rudolph F. Acuna, California Historical Society Quarterly "Extensively documented, the book has a lively, anecdotal style that brings many a forgotten character and incident back to life." —Fernando Penal, DE, [SC: 1.95], leichte Gebrauchsspuren, privates Angebot, [GW: 385g], [PU: London], Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand, [CT: Englischsprachige Bücher / Geschichte/Politik (englisch)]<