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
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52441
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
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52056
Ana Raquel Minian. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 336 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73703-7.
Reviewed by Allyson Brantley (University of La Verne) Published on H-California (July, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Jimmy Patiño. Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego. Justice, Power, and Politics Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 356 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3556-9.
Reviewed by Oliver Rosales (Bakersfield College) Published on H-California (June, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Thomas J. Osborne. Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California's Shore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. Illustrations. xx + 227 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28308-4; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29665-7.
Reviewed by Matthew Pearce (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-California (May, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Karen R. Roybal. Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960. Gender and American Culture Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 186 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3382-4; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3381-7.
Reviewed by Julia C. Frankenbach (University of Colorado at Boulder) Published on H-California (March, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
Scott Zesch. The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Illustrations. xii + 283 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-975876-0.
Reviewed by Karen Raines (University of California, Riverside) Published on H-California (September, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Forgetting and Remembering Atrocity
David Igler. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 255 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-991495-1.
Reviewed by Thomas Osborne Published on H-California (August, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Elana Zilberg. Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 344 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4713-2; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4730-9.
Reviewed by Christine M. Lamberson Published on H-California (August, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Peter J. Westwick, ed. Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California. Western Histories Series. Berkeley and San Marino: University of California Press and Huntington Library, 2012. Illustrations. 290 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87328-249-9.
Reviewed by Roger Eardley-Pryor Published on H-California (July, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Glenna Matthews. The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 272 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19400-6; $25.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-63921-8.
Reviewed by John P. Lloyd (Cal Poly Pomona) Published on H-California (January, 2013) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
Sue Fawn Chung. In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xxxii + 258 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03628-6.
Reviewed by Michael Duchemin (Chinese American Museum, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument) Published on H-California (November, 2012) Commissioned by Eileen V. Wallis
