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Canada and the United States

John F. Burns and Richard J. Orsi, editors. Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California. Assisted by Marlene Smith-Baranzini, Joshua Paddison, and Teena Stern. (California History Sesquicentennial Series, number 4.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, in association with the California Historical Society, San Francisco, Calif. 2003. Pp. xi, 288. $29.95.

This collection, edited by John F. Burns and Richard J. Orsi, is the fourth volume in a sesquicentennial series commissioned by the California Historical Society. This particular book concentrates on the evolution of legal and political institutions in California, from 1846, when California was captured by the United States after nearly two decades of Mexican rule, to 1879, when California adopted its second state constitution. These were formative years that required great attention to law, citizenship, order, and the establishment of basic institutions of governance.

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