Mary P. Ryan. Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Illustrations. 448 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-1783-9.
Reviewed by Adam Malka (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-California (May, 2020) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
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Connie Y. Chiang. Nature behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 328 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-084207-9.
Reviewed by Meredith Oda (University of Nevada, Reno) Published on H-California (March, 2020) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
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Robert W. Cherny. Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 360 pp. Ill. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08230-6.
Reviewed by Mary K. Coffey (Dartmouth College) Published on H-California (January, 2020) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
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Erika Pérez. Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. xii + 396 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-5904-1.
Reviewed by Ashley Riley Sousa (Middle Tennessee State University) Published on H-California (November, 2019) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Christopher Herbert. Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope. Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. Maps. 288 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74412-4; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74413-1.
Reviewed by Matthew Hill (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-California (October, 2019) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Max Felker-Kantor. Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD. Justice, Power, and Politics Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 392 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4683-1.
Reviewed by Michan Connor (Independent Scholar) Published on H-California (September, 2019) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Juan D. De Lara. Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Illustrations. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29739-5; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28958-1.
Reviewed by Alina R. Méndez (University of Washington) Published on H-California (July, 2019) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Diane M. T. North. California at War: The State and the People during World War I. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 496 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2646-5.
Reviewed by Eileen Wallis (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) Published on H-California (June, 2019) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Peter Cole. Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. Working Class in American History Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 310 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08376-1; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04207-2.
Reviewed by Erik Loomis (University of Rhode Island) Published on H-California (June, 2019) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Valerie Sherer Mathes, Phil Brigandi. Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. Illustrations. xi + 287 pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-5999-7.
Reviewed by Heather Ponchetti Daly (University of California San Diego) Published on H-California (February, 2019) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Cary Cordova. The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Illustrations. 336 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4930-9.
Reviewed by Felicia A. Viator (San Francisco State University) Published on H-California (October, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Kelly Lytle Hernández. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. Justice, Power, and Politics Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 312 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3118-9.
Reviewed by Justin Gomer (California State University, Long Beach) Published on H-California (August, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Laura Alice Watt. The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. 368 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-27708-3.
Reviewed by Robert Denning (Southern New Hampshire University) Published on H-California (August, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
J. E. Smyth. Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 328 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-084082-2.
Reviewed by Amanda Konkle (Georgia Southern University) Published on H-California (August, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
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Amy DeFalco Lippert. Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 416 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-026897-8.
Reviewed by Jennifer M. Black (Misericordia University) Published on H-California (July, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
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