Reading A, Week 6 Josiah Royce 1855-1916 Received PhD from Johns Hopkins University at 23 taught at UC Berkeley 1879-1882 Among the first historians in California to examine both national and state history from 1846-1856 exposed deceit and betrayal in the founding of California controversial a he suggested the betrayal of Californians revealed cultural weaknesses and threatened future development From California: A Study of American Character "In the strict sense, we Americans have seldom been conquerors; and early California shows us our nation in this somewhat rare character (279)." "The prejudices, the enmities, and the mistakes of that unhappy time bore rich fruit in the sequel, determining to a great extent the future relations of the new comers and the natives; and these relations in their turn determined, in no small degree, both the happiness and the moral welfare of the new comers themselves (280)." real motives and methods of an under...