California, history since 1846/Bibliography

Surveys

• 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)
• 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)

1846-1900

• 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)
• 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) [online edition
• Jelinek, Lawrence. Harvest Empire: A History of California Agriculture (1982)
• 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

• Abelmann, Nancy, and John Lie. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (1995)
• 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
• Roger W. Lotchin. Fortress California, 1910-1961 (2002)
• George E. Mowry. The California Progressives (1963)
• Sackman. Douglas Cazaux. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. (2005) comprehensive, multidimensional history of citrus industry
• Stephanie S. Pincetl. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development (2003)
• 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)
• Danielle Jean Swiontek. With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in Progressive California (2006)

Primary sources

• California Digital Newspaper Collection 100,000 pages of newspapers for 1900-1910: especially the San Francisco Call