Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword on El Camino Real

by Craig Chalquist

California has been invaded by three imperial powers: Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Deep California examines in depth the lingering psychological traumas and motifs emanating from that long history of conquest. These unhealed events have not been left in the past: they recur symbolically again and again, growing in intensity as the overbuilt land and its distracted occupiers unconsciously but definitively demonstrate that environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595514626
• ISBN13: 9780595514625
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"