California Civilization

Beyond the United States of America

Bibliographic Data

ID4480970
AuthorsJosef Chytry (California College of the Arts and Managing Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume85
Issue1
Pages8-36
Publication date2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513606062949
OpenAlexW2048254844
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

Although California is often regarded as a regional civilization within the United States of America, this article argues that California justifies being considered a major civilization in itself, indeed the only genuinely 21stcentury civilization, if only because of its top ranking among world economies. The article traces the varied facets of California natural and social history to show the overriding importance of biodiversity as a perennially unifying theme for an understanding of that civilization, and it confronts the varied challenges to this biodiversity that constitute more recent California history and politics

Biodiversity · Civilization · Economic history · Environmental ethics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Law · Philosophy · Ecology

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