Frank Bergon. Two-Buck Chuck & the Marlboro Man: The New Old West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2019. 264 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-948908-06-1.
Reviewed by Mark Bernhardt (Jackson State University) Published on H-War (October, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54027
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
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
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
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
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
Benjamin Mountford, Stephen Tuffnell, eds. A Global History of Gold Rushes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-96758-8.
Reviewed by Timothy Alborn (Lehman College) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53801
Dorene Koehler. The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland. Bloomington: John Libbey Publishing, 2017. 180 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-86196-727-8.
Reviewed by Matthew H. Brittingham (Emory University) Published on H-Celebration (February, 2019) Commissioned by Linda Levitt (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Amy Sueyoshi. Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental". Asian American Experience Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. x + 212 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08325-9; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04178-5.
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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