Father of All: Volume 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520289079)

Historian Louise Pubols presents a rich and nuanced study of a key family in California's past: the de la Guerras of Santa Barbara. Amid sweeping economic and political changes, including the U.S.Mexican War, the de la Guerra family continually adapted and reinvented themselves. This absorbing narrative is much more than the history of an elite and powerful family, however. Pubols analyzes the region's trading and provisioning economy and clarifies its volatile political rivalries. By tracing a web of business and family relationships, Pubols shows in practical terms how patriarchy functioned from generation to generation in Spanish and Mexican California. This is the first of a series of books on western history to be copublished by the Huntington Library and University of California Press.

Author: Louise Pubols
ISBN-10: 0520289072
ISBN-13: 9780520289079
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2010
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.70d