Reviews

Author:

Peter Cole

Reviewer:

Erik Loomis

Loomis on Cole, 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area'

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

Author:

Valerie Sherer Mathes, Phil Brigandi

Reviewer:

Heather Ponchetti Daly

Ponchetti Daly on Mathes and Brigandi, 'Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903'

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

Author:

Cary Cordova

Reviewer:

Felicia A. Viator

Viator on Cordova, 'The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco'

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

Author:

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Reviewer:

Justin Gomer

Gomer on Hernández, 'City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965'

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

Author:

Laura Alice Watt

Reviewer:

Robert Denning

Denning on Watt, 'The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore'

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

Author:

J. E. Smyth

Reviewer:

Amanda Konkle

Konkle on Smyth, 'Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood'

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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Author:

Amy DeFalco Lippert

Reviewer:

Jennifer M. Black

Black on Lippert, 'Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco'

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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Author:

Ana Raquel Minian

Reviewer:

Allyson Brantley

Brantley on Minian, 'Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration'

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

Author:

Jimmy Patiño

Reviewer:

Oliver Rosales

Rosales on Patiño, 'Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego'

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

Author:

Thomas J. Osborne

Reviewer:

Matthew Pearce

Pearce on Osborne, 'Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California's Shore'

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

Author:

Karen R. Roybal

Reviewer:

Julia C. Frankenbach

Frankenbach on Roybal, 'Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960'

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

Author:

Scott Zesch

Reviewer:

Karen Raines

Raines on Zesch, 'The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871'

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

Author:

David Igler

Reviewer:

Thomas Osborne

Osborne on Igler, 'The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush'

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

Author:

Elana Zilberg

Reviewer:

Christine M. Lamberson

Lamberson on Zilberg, 'Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador'

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

Author:

Peter J. Westwick, ed.

Reviewer:

Roger Eardley-Pryor

Eardley-Pryor on Westwick, 'Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California'

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

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Loomis on Cole, 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area'

Ponchetti Daly on Mathes and Brigandi, 'Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903'

Viator on Cordova, 'The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco'

Gomer on Hernández, 'City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965'

Denning on Watt, 'The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore'

Konkle on Smyth, 'Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood'

Black on Lippert, 'Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco'

Brantley on Minian, 'Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration'

Rosales on Patiño, 'Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego'

Pearce on Osborne, 'Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California's Shore'

Frankenbach on Roybal, 'Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960'

Raines on Zesch, 'The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871'

Osborne on Igler, 'The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush'

Lamberson on Zilberg, 'Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador'

Eardley-Pryor on Westwick, 'Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California'

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