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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

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California smallholders saw their titles as speculative investments that they could sell or rent to planters and other capitalists, less territory than an increasingly valuable entry in the expanding U.S. property register.

— Malcolm Harris

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