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The Pacific Ocean in history : papers and addresses presented at the Panama-Pacific Historical Congress, held at San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto, California, July 19-23, 1915 / edited by H. Morse Stephens ... [and] Herbert E. Bolton.

by Panama-Pacific Historical Congress (1915 : San Francisco, Calif., etc.)

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1917.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)

Philippines -- History.

Pacific Coast (North America) -- History.

vii, 535 pages ; 25 cm

Introduction -- Addresses delivered at the general sessions: The conflict of European nations in the Pacific / by H.M. Stephens ; The share of Spain in the history of the Pacific Ocean / by R. Altamira y Crevea ; The history of California / by J.F. Davis ; The American inter-oceanic canal, an historical sketch of the canal idea / by R.J. Taussig ; The Panama Canal / by T. Roosevelt -- Papers read at the special sessions: Opening address / by L.M. Guerrero ; The social structure of, and ideas of law among, early Philippine peoples, and a recently-discovered pre-Hispanic criminal code of the Philippine islands / by J.A. Robertson ; Troubles of an English governor of the Philippine islands / by K.C. Leebrick ; The Chinese in the Philippines / by W.L. Schurz ; The question of ecclesiastical visitation in the Philippines / by C.H. Cunningham ; The governor-general of the Philippines under Spain and the United States / by D.P. Barrows -- The northwestern states, British Columbia, and Alaska in their relations with the Pacific Ocean: The attitude of the Russian government toward Alaska / by F.A. Golder ; The fur trade in northwestern development / by F.W. Howay ; The western ocean as a determinant in Oregon history / by J. Schafer ; The waterways of the Pacific northwest / by C.B. Bagley -- Spanish-America and the Pacific Ocean: The monarchical plans of General San Martín / by E. Larrabure y Unanue ; The early explorations of Father Garcés on the Pacific slope / by H.E. Bolton ; British influence in Mexico, 1822-26 / by W.R. Manning ; The reforms of Joseph Gálvez in New Spain / by H.I. Priestly -- California: The "home guard" of 1861 / by H. Davis ; The founding of San Francisco / by C.E. Chapman -- New Mexico and Arizona: French intrusions into New Mexico, 1749-1752 / by H.E. Bolton ; Speech mixture in New Mexico / by A.M. Espinosa ; St. Vrain's expedition to the Gila in 1826 / by T.M. Marshall ; The causes for the failure of Otermin's attempt to reconquer New Mexico, 1681-1682 / by C.W. Hackett ; The ancestry and family of Juan de Oñate / by Beatrice Q. Cornish -- Japan and Australasia: Japan's early attempts to establish commercial relations with Mexico / by N. Murakami ; Social reactions of Buddhism in medieval Japan / by K. Asakawa ; New Zealand and the Pacific Ocean / by J.M. Brown.

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