The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California

The Catholic Historical Review | July 1, 1997| | Copyright

The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California. By Antonio Maria Osio. Translated, edited, and annotated by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.1996. Pp. xii, 388. $45.00 hardcover, $19.95 paperback.)

This work is a solid contribution to the continuing effort to understand Mexican California and the experience of the Hispanic californio population as it struggled through the transition from Spanish to Mexican to U.S. rule in less than three decades. While this period in California history often has been treated from the ...

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