California Conquered: War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846-1850.
by Harlow, Neal
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: bright red cloth with gilt spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the jacket is price
- ISBN 10
- 0520044304
- ISBN 13
- 9780520044302
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, California:: University of California Press, 1982.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: bright red cloth with gilt spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Red endpapers. Description: Includes a few black and white illustrations. Author Neal Harlow recounts the efforts of president James Polk and his agents -- the timorous Sloat, the elusive Fremont, the egotistical and domineering Commodore Stockton and the brave if bumptious Captain Gillespie -- to capture and hold California ''if possible.. without any strife.'' Yet strife there was. A companion volume -- California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846 - 1850 followed later (issued in paperback in 1989).
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 066251
- Title
- California Conquered: War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846-1850.
- Author
- Harlow, Neal
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: bright red cloth with gilt spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the jacket is price
- Edition
- 1st Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0520044304
- ISBN 13
- 9780520044302
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, California:
- Date Published
- 1982.
- Pages
- 499 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (9.5 inches tall)
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