{"product_id":"2940178953471","title":"Between the Covers: Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival","description":"2014 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Because California ranks as the nation's leading agricultural state and one of the world's top industrial regions, it is fitting that this groundbreaking book on California land history should be reissued. First published in 1948, this unrevised paperback edition tells the story of how Indian lands became Franciscan missions and Californio ranchos and how various legal and extra-legal devices of the United States encouraged private American ownership of these lands after the Mexican-American War.\u003cbr\u003eThe strength of the book derives from the author's ability to accomplish the goals he establishes in the subtitle: to tell the story of mission lands, ranchos, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, and homesteads. The author is gifted with the talent to unravel these developments in the style of a storyteller. For example, Robinson first describes California's early Spanish land laws and institutions, then selects San Pascual (Pasadena) as their archetype, and narrates the area's land history. After further discussing changes in land institutions and laws that followed the Mexican-American War, Robinson profiles San Francisco and Los Angeles as prototypes of such changes.\u003cp\u003eContents include:\u003cbr\u003eI. Whose California?\u003cbr\u003eII. First Owners\u003cbr\u003eIII. Missionary Empire\u003cbr\u003eIV. Four Square Leagues\u003cbr\u003eV. First Rancheros\u003cbr\u003eVI. Gifts of Land\u003cbr\u003eVII. Chain of Title\u003cbr\u003eVIII. The Land Commission\u003cbr\u003eIX. Shotgun Titles\u003cbr\u003eX. Titles in El Dorado\u003cbr\u003eXI. Land Grants to Railroads\u003cbr\u003eXII. Land for Settlers\u003cbr\u003eXIII. Land Scrip\u003cbr\u003eXIV. The State as Owner\u003cbr\u003eXV. Buying and Selling California\u003cbr\u003eXVI. Insurance of Title\u003cbr\u003eXVII. Title Story of Two Cities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138227650800,"sku":"2940178953471","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940178953471_p0.jpg?v=1763597248","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940178953471","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}