The document discusses the history of California over four weeks. Week 1 discusses Josiah Royce's theory of "The Higher Provincialism" and how it related to his experiences growing up in California. Week 2 discusses the increasing military importance of California, including the establishment of the Pacific Fleet and naval facilities. Week 3 discusses how the Great Depression impacted California's diversified economy in the early 1930s. Week 4 mentions some causes behind the 2003 recall election of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, including an energy crisis and state budget issues.

1. Week 1: The Higher ProvincialismThe Higher Provincialism is written by the theorist named “Josiah Royce”. It is an assay in which plays the theoretical core on Royce’s book.

2. Royce was born in the Mother Lode town of Grass Valley in 1855, subsumed into his theory of Higher Provincialism all that he had experience of California as a boy in mining camp.

3. For Royce, California was a prism through which the larger American identity, for better and for worse, could be glimpsed.

4. The ‘Provincialism’ is based on a Harvard philosopher which extolled regional life as something profoundly serving the human need for community.