78 - Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton, Author of Squatter's Republic and Herbs and Roots

January 31, 2023 00:41:26
78 - Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton, Author of Squatter's Republic and Herbs and Roots
History of California Podcast
78 - Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton, Author of Squatter's Republic and Herbs and Roots

Jan 31 2023 | 00:41:26

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Show Notes

Tamara Venit Shelton is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and author of Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace and A Squatter’s Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850–1900.

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