SUBJECT OF BOOKS

M. Kat Anderson. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources. University of California Press. 2006. 555pp.

Elna Bakker. An Island Called California: An Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities. University of California Press. 1985. 400pp. 2nd Edition, revised.

Mark Baldassare. California in the New Millennium: The Changing Social and Political Landscape. University of California Press. 2002. 283pp.

Walton Bean. California: An Interpretive History. McGraw-Hill. 1968. 576pp.

Michael J Bevier. Politics Backstage: Inside the California Legislature. Temple University Press. 1979. 277pp.

John F. Burns; Richard J. Orsi (editors). Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California. University of California Press. 2003. 288pp.

Albert Camarillo. Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in California. Boyd & Fraser. 1984. 139pp.

Jack Cashill. What's the Matter with California? Cultural Rumbles from the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2007. 368pp.

Robert J. Chandler. California: An Illustrated History. Hippocrene Books. 2004. 252pp.

Thomas R. Clark. Defending Rights: Law, Labor Politics, and the State in California, 1890-1925. Wayne State University Press. 2002. 297pp.

Erwin Cooper. Aqueduct Empire: A Guide to Water in California, Its Turbulent History and Its Management Today. A. H. Clark Co.. 1968. 439pp.

Cletus E. Daniel. Bitter Harvest, a History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941. Cornell University Press. 1981. 348pp.

Roger Daniels. The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion. University of California Press. 1999. 181pp.

Royce D. Delmatier; Clarence F. McIntosh; Earl G. Waters. The Rumble of California Politics, 1848-1970. John Wiley and Sons. 1970. 483pp.

Joe Domanick. Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State. University of California Press. 2005. 343pp.

Brian M. Fagan. Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants. Rowman Altamira. 2004. 416pp.

Larry N. Gerston; Terry Christensen. Recall! California's Political Earthquake. M. E. Sharpe. 2004. 187pp.

Carl-Henry Geschwind. California Earthquakes: Science, Risk, and the Politics of Hazard Mitigation. JHU Press. 2001. 352pp.

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs; Teiahsha Bankhead. Preserving Privilege: California Politics, Propositions, and People of Color. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2001. 230pp.

Robert L. Griswold. Family and Divorce in California, 1850-1890: Victorian Illusions and Everyday Realities. SUNY Press. 1982. 254pp.

Ramón A. Gutiérrez; Richard J. Orsi (editors). Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. University of California Press. 1998. 396pp.

Richard B. Harvey. The Dynamics of California Government and Politics. Wadsworth Publishing Co.. 1970. 301pp.

David E. Hayes-Bautista. La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State. University of California Press. 2004. 263pp.

Robert F. Heizer; Albert B. Elsasser. The Natural World of the California Indians. University of California Press. 1980. 271pp.

Franklin Hichborn. Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1911. San Francisco: Press of the James H. Barry Company. 1911. 348pp.

Albert L. Hurtado. Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California. University of New Mexico Press. 1999. 173pp.

Brian P. Janiskee; Ken Masugi. Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State. Rowman & Littlefield. 2008. 159pp. 2nd Edition.

David Alan Johnson. Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890. University of California Press. 1992. 474pp.

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp. Religion and Society in Frontier California. Yale University Press. 1994. 241pp.

Kirse Granat May. Golden State, Golden Youth: The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966. University of North Carolina Press. 2002. 243pp.

Candace McCoy. Politics and Plea Bargaining: Victims' Rights in California. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1993. 248pp.

Jeffrey F. Mount. California Rivers and Streams: The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use. University of California Press. 1995. 359pp.

Arthur O'Sullivan; Terri A. Sexton; Steven M. Sheffrin. Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13. Cambridge University Press. 1995. 159pp.

Joshua Paddison (editor). A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books. 1999. 344pp.

Stephanie S. Pincetl. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development. JHU Press. 2003. 400pp.

Dora Polk. The Island of California: A History of the Myth. University of Nebraska Press. 1995. 398pp.

Daniel Press. Saving Open Space: The Politics of Local Preservation in California. University of California Press. 2002. 212pp.

Jackson K. Putnam. Modern California Politics, 1917-1980. Boyd & Fraser. 1980. 102pp.

Beth Reingold. Representing Women: Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California. UNC Press. 2000. 338pp.

Irving Berdine Richman. California Under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1911. 541pp.

Andrew F. Rolle. California: A History. Crowell. 1969. 739pp.

Ralph Joseph Roske. Everyman's Eden: A History of California. New York: Macmillan. 1968. 624pp.

Paul Sabin. Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940. University of California Press. 2005. 307pp.

Douglas Cazaux Sackman. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. University of California Press. 2005. 386pp.

Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez. Spanish and Indian Place Names of California: Their Meaning and Their Romance. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson. 1914. 443pp.

Peter Schrag. California: America's High-Stakes Experiment. University of California Press. 2006. 328pp.

Peter Schrag. Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future. University of California Press. 2004. 370pp.

Kurt Schuparra. Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945-1966. M. E. Sharpe. 1998. 221pp.

Peter Selz. Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond. University of California Press. 2006. 298pp.

Lee Simpson. Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880-1940. Stanford University Press. 2004. 232pp.

Kevin Starr. The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s. Oxford University Press. 1997. 480pp.

Kevin Starr. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. Oxford University Press. 1986. 512pp.

Kevin Starr. Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era. Oxford University Press. 1986. 416pp.

Kevin Starr. Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California. Oxford University Press. 1997. 432pp.

Kevin Starr. Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950. Oxford University Press. 2003. 416pp.

Kevin Starr. Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003. Alfred A. Knopf. 2004. 765pp.

Dale L. Walker. Bear Flag Rising: The Conquest of California, 1846. Forge. 1999. 320pp.

John Walton. Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California. University of California Press. 1993. 360pp.

Devra Weber. Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal. University of California Press. 1994. 338pp.

Miriam J. Wells. Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture. Cornell University Press. 1996. 339pp.

James C. Williams. Energy and the Making of Modern California. University of Akron Press. 1997. 465pp.

R. Hal Williams. The Democratic Party and California Politics, 1880-1896. Stanford University Press. 1973. 290pp.

James Worthen. Governor James Rolph and the Great Depression in California. McFarland. 2006. 227pp.

David Wyatt. Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California. Oxford University Press. 1999. 304pp.

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