This book began as a venture to collect official and unofficial documents relating to the interval of American military rule. There proved to be thousands, the

"This book tells the hidden story of women during the missionization of California. It shows what it was like for women to live and work on that frontier - and

Presents a narrative history of Mexican cuisine in the United States, sharing a century's worth of anecdotes and cultural criticism to address questions about c

“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indig