A Cultural History of California

Copyright © 2026 Piero Scaruffi

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"A Cultural History of California" expands my previous books on California to include the arts: Purchase here (ISBN: 9798284045749)

Table of Contents

600 pages

Alphabetical index
Preface: Five Books In One
Discovery
Baja And Alta California
Geopolitics: Spain, France, Russia And The Usa
Illegal Anglosaxon Immigrants
California
The Gold Rush
The Chinese
The Philippines
The 49ers
The Railway
Culture and Nature
Barbary Coast
The Comstock Lode
A City Of Wealth
The Crash Of 1875
Mining Eastern California
Gold, Water and Electricity
The Chinatowns And Anti-Chinese Racism
The Chinese Made California
The Pueblo Of Los Angeles
The Chinese-American Intelligentsia
The End Of The Wild West
The Bohemians
The Plague And The Earthquake
Democracy And Socialism
After Chinatown
Re-Making San Francisco
Re-imagining San Francisco
Carmel's Art Colony
Making Los Angeles 1880-1910
Making San Diego
The Second City Of Wealth
The Beginnings of L.A.'s Art Scene
Hollywood
The Radio is Born
The Los Angeles Boom Of The Roaring Twenties
Los Angeles' Art and Music of the Jazz Age
Art Colonies of Southern California
The Aerospace Industry In Los Angeles
Integration After The Exclusion
Bay Area's Modernism of the 1920s
The Great Depression
The Proto-hippies
Art of the Great Depression in the Bay Area
Art of the Great Depression in Southern California
Surrealism
The Writers of the Great Depression
The Second Wave Of Chinese Immigration
Prodromes of the San Francisco Renaissance
Art Colonies of Northern California
The Computer Industry Is Born
Television Is Born
The San Francisco Renaissance: The Writers
The Beats
The San Francisco Renaissance: The Artists
The San Francisco Renaissance: The Musicians
The San Francisco Renaissance: The Second Generation
L.A. Subcultures
The Los Angeles Hipsters of the 1950s
Black and White Music in L.A. after WWII
The Ferus Revolution in Los Angeles
The Red Scare
Pop Art and Light and Space Movement
Land Art, Assemblage and Dada in L.A.
Birth of the Counterculture
The Minorities Rise Up
Music, Literature and Cinema in Los Angeles before the Hippies
The Bay Area before the Hippies: Funk
The Bay Area before the Hippies: Sculpture and Painting
The Bay Area Before the Hippies: Electronic Music
The Bay Area before the Hippies: Literature of Provocation
The Hippies
The Broader Transformative Impact of the Hippie Phenomenon
Visual Arts in the Hippie Era
Video Art in San Francisco
Hippie Music in Los Angeles
Conceptual Art in Los Angeles
The Third Wave Of Chinese Immigration
The New Age Movement
The Taiwanese Exodus
After Mao
After the Hippies
The Bay Area after the Hippies: The Visual Arts
The Bay Area after the Hippies: Conceptual Art
The Bay Area after the Hippies: Punk
The Bay Area after the Hippies: Mail Art, Comics, Intermedia
The Bay Area after the Hippies: Photography and Cinema
The Bay Area after the Hippies: Music
The Bay Area after the Hippies: Literature
L.A. after the Hippies: Visual and Conceptual Art
L.A. after the Hippies: Feminist Art, Black Bricolage, Chicano Muralists
L.A. after the Hippies: Music
L.A. after the Hippies: Photography and Media Art
San Diego after the Hippies: Conceptual and Political Art
How Taiwan Saved Silicon Valley
Bay Area's Culture in the Age of the Yuppies
Bay Area's Alternative Cinema in the Age of the Yuppies
Bay Area's Music in the Age of the Yuppies
Los Angeles Art in the Age of the Yuppies
Los Angeles Music in the Age of the Yuppies
After The Cold War
The Fourth Wave Of Chinese Immigration
Who Made Silicon Valley?
Art of the Internet Age in the Bay Area
Video Art of the Internet Age in the Bay Area
Art of the Internet Age in Los Angeles
Music of the Internet Age in the Bay Area
Music of the Internet Age in Southern California
The 21st Century
The Fifth Wave Of Chinese Immigration
Los Angeles Culture at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Los Angeles Music at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Bay Area Music at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Bay Area Culture at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Bay Area: Life, Art, Science & Tech
California Unbound
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