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==Surveys==
==Surveys==
* Bakken, Gordon Morris. ''California History: A Topical Approach'' (2003)
* Bakken, Gordon Morris. ''California History: A Topical Approach'' (2003)
* Robert W. Cherny, Richard Griswold del Castillo, and Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo. ''Competing Visions: A History Of California'' (2005)
* [http://www.1st-hand-history.org/Hhb/HHBindex.htm Hubert Howe Bancroft. ''The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft,''] vol 18-24, ''History of California'' to 1890; complete text online;
* Cherny, Robert W., Richard Griswold del Castillo, and Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo. ''Competing Visions: A History Of California'' (2005)
*  Cleland, Robert Glass. ''A History of California: The American Period'' (1922) 512pp [http://books.google.com/books?id=4WdgAQbv13EC&dq=%22history+of+california%22  online edition]
* Hittell, Theodore Henry. ''History of California'' (4 vol 1898) [http://books.google.com/books?id=4GFJTXSj8UgC&dq=%22history+of+california%22  online edition]
* Merchant, Carolyn ed. ''Green Versus Gold: Sources In California's Environmental History'' (1998) readings in primary and secondary sources
* Merchant, Carolyn ed. ''Green Versus Gold: Sources In California's Environmental History'' (1998) readings in primary and secondary sources
* Pitt, Leonard, and Dale Pitt. ''Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County'' (2000)
* Pitt, Leonard, and Dale Pitt. ''Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County'' (2000)
* Rawls, James J. ed. ''New Directions In California History: A Book of Readings'' (1988)
* Rawls, James J. ed. ''New Directions In California History: A Book of Readings'' (1988)
* Rawls, James and Walton Bean, ''California:  An Interpretive History'' (2003) 8th edition of textbook
* Rawls, James and Walton Bean, ''California:  An Interpretive History'' (2003) 8th edition of textbook
* Rice, Richard B., William A. Bullough, and Richard J. Orsi. Elusive Eden: A New History of California'' 3rd ed (2001) textbook
* Rice, Richard B., William A. Bullough, and Richard J. Orsi. ''Elusive Eden: A New History of California'' 3rd ed (2001) textbook
* Rolle, Andrew F.  ''California: A History'' 6th ed. (2003) textbook
* Rolle, Andrew F.  ''California: A History'' 6th ed. (2003) textbook
* Starr, Kevin  and Richard J. Orsi eds. ''Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California'' (2001)
* Starr, Kevin  and Richard J. Orsi eds. ''Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California'' (2001)
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* Sucheng, Chan , and  Spencer C. Olin, eds. ''Major Problems in California History'' (1996)
* Sucheng, Chan , and  Spencer C. Olin, eds. ''Major Problems in California History'' (1996)


===1846-1900===
===Environment, agriculture, water===
* Carle, David.  ''Introduction to Water in California.'' U. of California Press, 2004. 261 pp. 
* Deverell, William and Hise, Greg, eds.  ''Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles.'' U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 350 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Land-Sunshine-Environmental-Metropolitan-Pittsburgh/dp/0822959399/ref=sr_1_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190207073&sr=8-2 excerpt and online search]
* Godfrey, Anthony.  ''The Ever-Changing View: A History of the National Forests in California.'' US Forest Service, 2005. 657 pp. 
* Griggs, Gary; Patsch, Kiki; and Savoy, Lauret, eds.  ''Living with the Changing California Coast.'' U. of California Press, 2005. 540 pp. 
* Hundley Jr., Norris. ''The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History'' (2nd ed 2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Thirst-Californians-Water-History/dp/0520224566/ref=sr_1_5/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190230451&sr=8-5 excerpt and text search]
* Isenberg, Andrew C.  ''Mining California: An Ecological History.'' Hill & Wang, 2005. 242 pp. 
* Jelinek,  Lawrence. ''Harvest Empire: A History of California Agriculture'' (1982) (ISBN 0-87835-131-0)
* Merchant, Carolyn ed. ''Green Versus Gold: Sources In California's Environmental History'' (1998) readings in primary and secondary sources [http://www.amazon.com/Green-Versus-Gold-Californias-Environmental/dp/1559635800/ref=sr_1_13/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190230451&sr=8-13 excerpt and text search]
* Pincetl, Stephanie S. ''Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Transforming-California-Political-History-Development/dp/0801873126/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190411125&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Righter, Robert W.  ''The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism.'' Oxford U. Press, 2005. 303 pp. 
* Sackman. Douglas Cazaux. ''Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden.'' (2005) comprehensive, multidimensional history of citrus industry
*  Street, Richard Steven.  ''Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913.'' Stanford U. Press, 2004. 904 pp. 
 
===Ethnicity, gender===
* Abelmann, Nancy, and John Lie.  ''Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots'' (1995) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=100946216  online edition]
* Camarillo, Albert.  ''Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930.'' (1979) 336 pp. 
* Camarillo, Albert.  ''Chicanos in California: A history of Mexican Americans in California'' (1984) 139pp, for middle schools.
* Camarillo, Albert M., “Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California’s Minority-Majority Cities,” ''Pacific Historical Review,'' 76 (Feb. 2007), 1–28.
* Espiritu, Yen Le.  ''Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries.'' U. of California Press, 2003. 271 pp.  [http://www.amazon.com/Home-Bound-Filipino-Communities-Countries/dp/0520235274/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190230110&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Hayes-Bautista, David E.  ''La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State.'' U. of California Press, 2004. 263 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Nueva-California-Latinos-Golden-State/dp/0520241460/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190230154&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
*  Kahn, Ava F. and Dollinger, Marc, eds.  ''California Jews.'' U. Press of New England, 2003. 196 pp.  [http://www.amazon.com/California-Brandeis-American-History-Culture/dp/1584650605/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190230184&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Matsumoto, Valerie J. ''Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982'' (1994) [http://www.amazon.com/Farming-Home-Place-Community-California/dp/0801481155/ref=sr_1_12/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190230451&sr=8-12 excerpt and text search]
* Matthews, Glenna.  ''Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century.'' Stanford U. Press, 2003. 313 pp. 
* Pitt, Leonard. ''The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890'' (1966, 1999) [http://books.google.com/books?id=KVBOxT5-G08C&pg=PP1&dq=Pitt,+Leonard.+%27%27The+Decline+of+the+Californios&sig=LFc5OavhXj9wITY4N4ts2_PJ7dE online excerpt and search]
*  Pitti, Stephen J. ''The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans'' (2003) 320pp; [http://books.google.com/books?id=RPl0Rqh5WFcC&pg=PA225&dq=Matthews,+Glenna.++%27%27Silicon+Valley,+Women,+and+the+California&sig=mKqXeukFZVQ1vU1sEhJhGluay68 online excerpt and search]
* Saxton, Alexander. ''The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California'' (1971) [http://books.google.com/books?lr=&pg=PR9&sig=v2bEcXvNRZHNAgGv6dUkvgy3Nt0&id=H_nWDV0HS2YC&ots=HVMkC5oc0f&output=html online excerpt and search]
*  Sides, Josh.  ''L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present.'' U. of California Press, 2003. 288 pp.  [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CTtv9tLicKgC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Sides,+Josh.++%27%27L.A.+City+Limits:+&ots=bWQDyvpZTd&sig=PpFos6ncylJEHno2ag_jZACgN-E online excerpts and search]
* Swiontek, Danielle Jean. ''With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in Progressive California'' (2006)
 
===Gold rush===
* Bancroft, H.H. ''History of California'' Vol V. Bear Flag Revolt (1888) [http://www.bearflagmuseum.org/BancroftIntroTOC.html online edition]
* Bancroft, H.H. ''History of California'' Vol V. Bear Flag Revolt (1888) [http://www.bearflagmuseum.org/BancroftIntroTOC.html online edition]
* Brands, H.W. ''The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream'' (2003)  
* Brands, H.W. ''The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Age-Gold-California-American-Dream/dp/0385720882/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190230297&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
*  Burns, John F.  and Richard J. Orsi, eds; ''Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California'' U of California Press, 2003 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105960680  online edition]
* Starr, Kevin  and Richard J. Orsi eds. ''Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California'' (2001)
 
===1850-1900===
* Burchell, Robert A. "The Loss of a Reputation; or, The Image of California in Britain before 1875," ''California Historical Quarterly'' 53 (Summer 1974): 115-30, stories about Gold Rush lawlessness slowed immigration for two decades
* Burchell, Robert A. "The Loss of a Reputation; or, The Image of California in Britain before 1875," ''California Historical Quarterly'' 53 (Summer 1974): 115-30, stories about Gold Rush lawlessness slowed immigration for two decades
*  Burns, John F.  and Richard J. Orsi, eds; ''Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California'' U. of California Press, (2003) [[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105960680  online edition]
* Jelinek,  Lawrence. ''Harvest Empire: A History of California Agriculture'' (1982)
* McAfee, Ward. ''California's Railroad Era, 1850-1911'' (1973)
* McAfee, Ward. ''California's Railroad Era, 1850-1911'' (1973)
* Olin, Spencer. ''California Politics, 1846-1920'' (1981)
* Olin, Spencer. ''California Politics, 1846-1920'' (1981)
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==1900-2007==
==1900-2007==
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=100946216  Abelmann, Nancy, and John Lie. ''Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots'' (1995)]
* Boyarsky, Bill, ''Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics,'' (2007); powerful speaker of the Assembly (1961-1969), defeated for governor in 1970 by [[Ronald Reagan]]; state treasurer from 1975 until his death in 1987.
* Cannon, Lou. ''Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power Public Affairs.'' (2003) detailed biography [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=7xGbZWOlfvkC&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&dq=Cannon,+Lou.+%27%27Governor+Reagan&ots=JuHAQcl_IS&sig=XsGw37zD-jwwQRBQ4K1M9Pw8h-A online excerpts]
* Dallek, Matthew. ''The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics.'' (2004). Study of 1966 election as governor. [http://books.google.com/books?id=r-M9H5dEGlcC&pg=PA250&dq=Dallek,+Matthew.+%27%27The+Right+Moment:+Ronald+Reagan%27s+First&sig=nst-XESZFgjhrGbSnB31EY4xIEY online excerpts and search]
* Fogelson, Robert M. ''The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930'' (1993)
* Fogelson, Robert M. ''The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930'' (1993)
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=15166874 Miller, Sally M., and  Daniel A. Cornford eds. ''American Labor in the Era of World War II'' (1995)] essays by scholars, mostly on California
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=15166874 Miller, Sally M., and  Daniel A. Cornford eds. ''American Labor in the Era of World War II'' (1995)] essays by scholars, mostly on California
* Roger W. Lotchin. ''Fortress California, 1910-1961'' (2002)  
* Erie, Steven P.  ''Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development.'' Stanford U. Press, 2004. 310 pp. [http://www.sup.org/html/book_pages/0804746818/Press%20Release.pdf blurb]
* George E. Mowry. ''The California Progressives'' (1963)  
* Giventer, Lawrence. ''Governing California'' (2003), short textbook; [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0072488670/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpt and texts search]
* Sackman. Douglas Cazaux. ''Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden.'' (2005) comprehensive, multidimensional history of citrus industry
* Lotchin, Roger W. ''Fortress California, 1910-1961'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Fortress-California-1910-1961-WARFARE-WELFARE/dp/0252071034/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190206823&sr=8-1 excerpt and online search]
* Stephanie S. Pincetl. ''Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development'' (2003)  
* McAfee, Ward. ''California's Railroad Era, 1850-1911'' (1973)
* Miller, Sally M., and  Daniel A. Cornford eds. ''American Labor in the Era of World War II'' (1995)] essays by scholars, mostly on California [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=15166874  online edition]
* Mowry, George E. ''The California Progressives'' (1963), early 20th century
* Olin, Spencer. ''California Politics, 1846-1920'' (1981)
* Orsi, Richard J. ''Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930.'' U. of California Press, 2005. 615 pp.  [http://www.amazon.com/Sunset-Limited-Southern-Development-1850-1930/dp/0520251644/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190206866&sr=8-1 excerpt and online search]
*  Putnam, Jackson K.  ''Jess: The Political Career of Jesse Marvin Unruh.'' U. Press of America, 2005. 462 pp. 
* Rarick, Ethan.  ''California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown.'' U. of California Press, 2005. 501 pp. 
* Sabin, Paul. ''Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940.'' U. of California Press, 2005. 307 pp.
*  Schrag, Peter.  ''Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future.'' 3d ed. (original publ. 1998). Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2004. 370 pp.
*  Schrag, Peter.  ''California: America's High-Stakes Experiment'' (2006) [http://books.google.com/books?id=EIPF5yWu3a8C&pg=PP1&dq=Erie,+Steven+P.++%27%27Globalizing+L.A.:+Trade,+Infrastructure,+and&sig=AdpVHw_Sn2qa7fOjN4FYi9dKtdM excerpts and online search]
* Sitton, Tom and William F, Deverell, eds. ''Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s'' (2001)  
* Sitton, Tom and William F, Deverell, eds. ''Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s'' (2001)  
* Starr, Kevin. ''Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915'' (1973) [[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=71529502  online edition]
* Starr, Kevin. ''Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915'' (1973) [[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=71529502  online edition]
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* Starr, Kevin. ''Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950'' (2003)
* Starr, Kevin. ''Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950'' (2003)
* Starr, Kevin. ''Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003'' (2004)
* Starr, Kevin. ''Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003'' (2004)
* Danielle Jean Swiontek. ''With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in Progressive California'' (2006)
* Swiontek, Danielle Jean. ''With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in Progressive California'' (2006)
 
==Primary sources==
==Primary sources==
*[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/  California Digital Newspaper Collection] 100,000 pages of newspapers for 1900-1910: especially the ''San Francisco Call''
*[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/  California Digital Newspaper Collection] 100,000 pages of newspapers for 1900-1910: especially the ''San Francisco Call''

Revision as of 02:34, 19 November 2007

Surveys

  • Bakken, Gordon Morris. California History: A Topical Approach (2003)
  • Hubert Howe Bancroft. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol 18-24, History of California to 1890; complete text online;
  • Cherny, Robert W., Richard Griswold del Castillo, and Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo. Competing Visions: A History Of California (2005)
  • Cleland, Robert Glass. A History of California: The American Period (1922) 512pp online edition
  • Hittell, Theodore Henry. History of California (4 vol 1898) online edition
  • Merchant, Carolyn ed. Green Versus Gold: Sources In California's Environmental History (1998) readings in primary and secondary sources
  • Pitt, Leonard, and Dale Pitt. Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County (2000)
  • Rawls, James J. ed. New Directions In California History: A Book of Readings (1988)
  • Rawls, James and Walton Bean, California: An Interpretive History (2003) 8th edition of textbook
  • Rice, Richard B., William A. Bullough, and Richard J. Orsi. Elusive Eden: A New History of California 3rd ed (2001) textbook
  • Rolle, Andrew F. California: A History 6th ed. (2003) textbook
  • Starr, Kevin and Richard J. Orsi eds. Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (2001)
  • Starr, Kevin. California: A History (2005), synthesis
  • Sucheng, Chan , and Spencer C. Olin, eds. Major Problems in California History (1996)

Environment, agriculture, water

  • Carle, David. Introduction to Water in California. U. of California Press, 2004. 261 pp.
  • Deverell, William and Hise, Greg, eds. Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles. U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 350 pp. excerpt and online search
  • Godfrey, Anthony. The Ever-Changing View: A History of the National Forests in California. US Forest Service, 2005. 657 pp.
  • Griggs, Gary; Patsch, Kiki; and Savoy, Lauret, eds. Living with the Changing California Coast. U. of California Press, 2005. 540 pp.
  • Hundley Jr., Norris. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History (2nd ed 2001) excerpt and text search
  • Isenberg, Andrew C. Mining California: An Ecological History. Hill & Wang, 2005. 242 pp.
  • Jelinek, Lawrence. Harvest Empire: A History of California Agriculture (1982) (ISBN 0-87835-131-0)
  • Merchant, Carolyn ed. Green Versus Gold: Sources In California's Environmental History (1998) readings in primary and secondary sources excerpt and text search
  • Pincetl, Stephanie S. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development (2003) excerpt and text search
  • Righter, Robert W. The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism. Oxford U. Press, 2005. 303 pp.
  • Sackman. Douglas Cazaux. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. (2005) comprehensive, multidimensional history of citrus industry
  • Street, Richard Steven. Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. Stanford U. Press, 2004. 904 pp.

Ethnicity, gender

  • Abelmann, Nancy, and John Lie. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (1995) online edition
  • Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930. (1979) 336 pp.
  • Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in California: A history of Mexican Americans in California (1984) 139pp, for middle schools.
  • Camarillo, Albert M., “Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California’s Minority-Majority Cities,” Pacific Historical Review, 76 (Feb. 2007), 1–28.
  • Espiritu, Yen Le. Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. U. of California Press, 2003. 271 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Hayes-Bautista, David E. La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State. U. of California Press, 2004. 263 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Kahn, Ava F. and Dollinger, Marc, eds. California Jews. U. Press of New England, 2003. 196 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 (1994) excerpt and text search
  • Matthews, Glenna. Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. Stanford U. Press, 2003. 313 pp.
  • Pitt, Leonard. The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890 (1966, 1999) online excerpt and search
  • Pitti, Stephen J. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans (2003) 320pp; online excerpt and search
  • Saxton, Alexander. The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971) online excerpt and search
  • Sides, Josh. L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present. U. of California Press, 2003. 288 pp. online excerpts and search
  • Swiontek, Danielle Jean. With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in Progressive California (2006)

Gold rush

  • Bancroft, H.H. History of California Vol V. Bear Flag Revolt (1888) online edition
  • Brands, H.W. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (2003) excerpt and text search
  • Burns, John F. and Richard J. Orsi, eds; Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California U of California Press, 2003 online edition
  • Starr, Kevin and Richard J. Orsi eds. Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (2001)

1850-1900

  • Burchell, Robert A. "The Loss of a Reputation; or, The Image of California in Britain before 1875," California Historical Quarterly 53 (Summer 1974): 115-30, stories about Gold Rush lawlessness slowed immigration for two decades
  • McAfee, Ward. California's Railroad Era, 1850-1911 (1973)
  • Olin, Spencer. California Politics, 1846-1920 (1981)
  • Pitt, Leonard. The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890 (1966) (ISBN 0-520-01637-8) excerpt and text search
  • Saxton, Alexander. The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971) (ISBN 0-520-02905-4)
  • Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973) [online edition
  • Starr, Kevin and Richard J. Orsi eds. Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (2001), articles by scholars
  • Tutorow , Norman E. Leland Stanford Man of Many Careers(1971)
  • Williams, R. Hal. The Democratic Party and California Politics, 1880-1896 (1973)

1900-2007

  • Boyarsky, Bill, Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics, (2007); powerful speaker of the Assembly (1961-1969), defeated for governor in 1970 by Ronald Reagan; state treasurer from 1975 until his death in 1987.
  • Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power Public Affairs. (2003) detailed biography online excerpts
  • Dallek, Matthew. The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics. (2004). Study of 1966 election as governor. online excerpts and search
  • Fogelson, Robert M. The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 (1993)
  • Miller, Sally M., and Daniel A. Cornford eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II (1995) essays by scholars, mostly on California
  • Erie, Steven P. Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development. Stanford U. Press, 2004. 310 pp. blurb
  • Giventer, Lawrence. Governing California (2003), short textbook; excerpt and texts search
  • Lotchin, Roger W. Fortress California, 1910-1961 (2002) excerpt and online search
  • McAfee, Ward. California's Railroad Era, 1850-1911 (1973)
  • Miller, Sally M., and Daniel A. Cornford eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II (1995)] essays by scholars, mostly on California online edition
  • Mowry, George E. The California Progressives (1963), early 20th century
  • Olin, Spencer. California Politics, 1846-1920 (1981)
  • Orsi, Richard J. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930. U. of California Press, 2005. 615 pp. excerpt and online search
  • Putnam, Jackson K. Jess: The Political Career of Jesse Marvin Unruh. U. Press of America, 2005. 462 pp.
  • Rarick, Ethan. California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. U. of California Press, 2005. 501 pp.
  • Sabin, Paul. Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940. U. of California Press, 2005. 307 pp.
  • Schrag, Peter. Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future. 3d ed. (original publ. 1998). Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2004. 370 pp.
  • Schrag, Peter. California: America's High-Stakes Experiment (2006) excerpts and online search
  • Sitton, Tom and William F, Deverell, eds. Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001)
  • Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973) [online edition
  • Starr, Kevin. Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (1986) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=76788150 online edition
  • Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s(1991) online edition
  • Starr, Kevin. Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (1997)
  • Starr, Kevin. The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (1997) online edition
  • Starr, Kevin. Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (2003)
  • Starr, Kevin. Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 (2004)
  • Swiontek, Danielle Jean. With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in Progressive California (2006)

Primary sources

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