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- Title
"A MORE LOYAL, UNION LOVING PEOPLE CAN NOWHERE BE FOUND": SQUATTERS' RIGHTS, SECESSION ANXIETY, AND THE 1861 "SETTLERS' WAR" IN SAN JOSE.
- Authors
SHELTON, TAMARA VENIT
- Abstract
The 1861 "Settlers' War" of San Jose illustrates how ideals central to nineteenth- century American political culture undermined Mexican claims to land rights in California. This article argues that the dispossession of Californios must be understood within a larger context of anti-land monopolism and its relationship to race, unionism, and the crisis of secession.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; SAN Jose (Calif.); UNITED States; LEGAL status of squatters; LAND tenure; SECESSION -- Social aspects; MEXICANS; LAND grants; FRONTIER &; pioneer life; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Western Historical Quarterly, 2010, Vol 41, Issue 4, p473
- ISSN
0043-3810
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/westhistquar.41.4.473