History of California

A Captivating Guide to the History of the Golden State, Starting from When Native Americans Dominated Through European Exploration to the Present

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

If you want to discover the influential and captivating history of California, then read on....

California’s transformation into the most populous state in America and the home of some of the country’s richest citizens spread amongst Silicon Valley and Hollywood, was certainly no accident. California has always been one of the most diverse and multicultural states in the United States, way before it was a state at all, and even before the arrival of the Europeans.

With California’s rugged yet diverse terrain, the first settlers spread into hundreds of different tribes, all with their own lifestyles, religions, diets, and culture, much of which was based on the landscape they ended up in.

Over the course of the 18th century, California truly developed into the state we know it as today. Within the century, the region passed through the hands of the Spaniards, the Republic of Mexico, and finally, the United States of America, which warred over acquiring California’s fertile and diverse lands. From the first true economy surrounding the California Gold Rush, the region would evolve into America’s richest and most populous state, a status that is still maintained today.

In this book, you will learn:

• California’s Native American population
• The Spanish exploration of Mexico, which led to the discovery of California
• The colonization of the region of California led by the Spanish church missions
• Mexican California
• The Gold Rush
• The San Francisco earthquake
• The effects of World War I and II on California
• The socio-political reforms that occurred over the course of the 20th century
• California’s technology boom
• How California transitioned into one of the most populous states in America, as well as one of the more diverse and liberal states in the country

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a well told story of CA

I enjoyed this story taking me from the ancient asians who traveled over the bearing strait up to today in telling the history of California. it has a lot of interesting details and is well told.

A very clear view of California history

Easy listening from 17 thousand years ago till present of California history. A clear understanding of what made California unique, wealthy, diversified and named the Golden state.

thankfully for the audio

listening to the audio keeps me on track with the book. The narrator's voice is British and smooth. The story flows along nicely.

History of California

I really enjoyed this book. I was surprised to learn about how much California was tied to Spain.

Solid overview of the long history of this state

This audiobook has a very good survey of the various phases of Californian history up to to modern times. As acknowledged at the outset, there is a vast "prehistory" of the area's indigenous peoples, it does give serviceable overview. It is interesting that there is still disagreement about exactly when the first Asian peoples can across the Bering land bridge - from at least ten thousand to 120 thousand years ago.

There is prominent treatment of the long and continued ill treatment of native peoples and other groups of people who were dominated by whatever ruling population was dominate at the time (first Spanish, then Mexican, and then American).

I learned many interesting facts about the state (e.g., the origin of the name, "California", the origin of the state flag, etc.). The book does a really good job explaining driving reasons for the regional differences.

California is a complex state with a storied and complicated history. I really enjoyed how "History of California" created a very clear narrative to make this understandable and memorable.

Great Overview, Not Unbiased

Fantastic, lovely narration. Great overview of the history of this complicated state. However, if you’re looking for unbiased, straight history, this may not be it. Author’s political bias is apparent— which isn’t bad, necessarily, but something to note.

Interesting history

For such a short known history, California has seen a lot of activity, from Indigenous American control to the Spanish moving in to the take over by Mexico and up to today by the United States. From a place that took an average of 6 months to travel to, to a place where thousands of people from all over the world made a mad rush to reach, California continued to change to meet its' new population. California has a unique position in history for being a melting pot that just happened by fate. This history is nicely told here in this book

Great

Excellent audio book on the history of California. I would recommend this title to those who want to learn more about the history of this state.

Just awful

This is the most pathetic history California I have ever read. I doubt that the author has never even been to California and all he took was snippets from other historical books that were way off. Quite frankly it was embarrassing.

Meh.

I mean it was okay but it was not much past junior high california history.