Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

"Very easy to read ... This book is full of surprises, it constantly challenges ... excellent performance." - Pacific History Review

"A devil in a beautiful book, a book that only Indigenous Peoples of California can write.The spiritual landscape born in California's inner life, local and self-employed, about a spiritual landscape.The result is a mature, It is a well-balanced, diversified (and relocated) study. "-" New York Times Book Review "

"California Starr's book is indispensable ... What Henry Nash Smith's" Virgin Land "does for the opening in the West: it shows ideas, myths, misunderstandings. I hope how we shape and often distort the developing society. "- Los Angeles Times

"Vividly depicts the rich and diverse intellectual power that is helping shape one of our most unique regional cultures." - St. Louis Post Dispatch

"It is an extraordinary work in both thought and scale ... scholars and non-experts will find valuable additions to their library." - History: Comments for new books

"An attractive story documenting the importance of myth and imagination that attracted Americans to California before the First World War" - R. H. Limbo, University of the Pacific

The state of California 's dream is the theme of Kevin Starr' s majestic historical series (7 books, collectively referred to as "American and California dreams"). He wrote that dreams are myths, promises and possibilities of salvation. Star thinks he can find some meaning through California but can also find some meaning through California, even though he wants to know whether that dream will lead to a dead end . In the 1950's, people in California dreamed of becoming a California lifestyle with casual, homely orders and comfortable images. The scenery of California not only as a spectacular part of nature like Yosemite, but also as a magnificent one, there still is a collective heroism in the mid-20th century construction project.

In the 1850s, Chinese immigrants began to enter California to find gold and California dreams. They heard that California is a new frontier and a frontier to provide economic wealth opportunities to them. These young and ambitious Chinese immigrants soon married in their home country, started baking for money, promised to return (with wealth). Similarly, in the 1880s when California was experiencing rapid economic change, Japanese immigrants - as young and ambitious as their Chinese counterparts - left for the United States, I was full. " However, few of these Chinese and Japanese immigrants