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“THIS STRANGE AND DISTANT LAND:”
ISOLATION, PROBLEM GROUPS, AND THE INCORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA, 1846-
1882
by
Nicholas Sean Hall
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
HISTORY
December 2012
Copyright 2012 Nicholas Sean Hall
Object Description
| Title | "This strange and distant land:" isolation, problem groups, and the incorporation of California, 1846-1882 |
| Author | Hall, Nicholas Sean |
| Author email | nicholsh@usc.edu;uhalln00@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-10-24 |
| Date submitted | 2012-11-17 |
| Date approved | 2012-11-19 |
| Restricted until | 2012-11-19 |
| Date published | 2012-11-19 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Deverell, William |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kurashige, Lon Handley, William |
| Abstract | This thesis examines the course of several attempts by both the federal government and California’s people to incorporate the state into the national fabric and identity during the mid to late nineteenth century. Some events, particularly the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, conjured a number of significant questions about its fitness for full membership in the national community of states. Others, including the Gold Rush, the Compromise of 1850, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 all attempted and failed to bridge this gap, largely due to California’s isolation. The federal government's capitulation to the demands of the state’s opposition to immigration from China in the form of the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in May 1882. Seizing on a historical moment of uncertainty – the retreat from the racially egalitarian promises of radical Reconstruction – the Far West inserted its agenda onto the national stage, and the nation validated its interpretation of white supremacy in Gilded Age America. |
| Keyword | Chinese; Workingmen's Party of California; railroad; California Gold Rush; Mormons; African Americans; nativism; racism; white supremacy; Reconstruction; Civil War; Compromise of 1850 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Hall, Nicholas Sean |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-HallNichol-1302.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | “THIS STRANGE AND DISTANT LAND:” ISOLATION, PROBLEM GROUPS, AND THE INCORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA, 1846- 1882 by Nicholas Sean Hall A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY HISTORY December 2012 Copyright 2012 Nicholas Sean Hall |
