2.7: Suggested Readings
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- Bolton, Herbert Eugene. One of the most prolific scholars in Spanish California studies. Students should consult his book-length studies on Father Juan Crespi, De Anza, and especially his translation of Father Francisco Palou’s Historical Memoirs of New California (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966).
- Castañeda, Antonia I., “Presidarias y Pobladores: Spanish-Mexican Women in Frontier Monterey, Alta California, 1770–1821” (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1990). One of the few book-length monographs about Spanish women in this period.
- Cook, Sherburne F., The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976). An anthropologist who has interpreted a wealth of data to help us understand the dimensions of the conflict.
- Costo, Rupert, and Costo, Jeannette H., The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide (San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1987). A historical attack on the pro-Spanish interpretation of the missions written by California Indian historians.
- Engelhardt, Father Zephyrin, The Missions and Missionaries of California (San Francisco: James Barry, 1908–1929). The classic defense of the California missions is this four-volume work by the Franciscan priest, as well as the scholarly writings of Msgr. Francis J. Weber, in his individual histories of the missions.
- Geiger, Father Maynard, The Life and Times of Fray Junípero Serra, O.F.M.; or, The Man Who Never Turned Back, 1713–1784: A Biography (Washington: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1959). The classic study of Father Serra’s labors in California.
- Gutiérrez, Ramón A., and Orsi, Richard J., eds., Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998). An anthology of the most recent interpretations of California’s history before 1848. New essays on the ecological consequences of conquest.
- Monroy, Douglas, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990). A well-written discussion of the California Indian interactions with the Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo frontiers.
- Peelo, Sarah, “Baptism Among the Salinan Neophytes of Mission San Antonio de Padua: Investigating the Ecological Hypothesis,” Ethnohistory 2009 56(4):589–624. Presents evidence for and against the environmental pressures as explaining wide-spread native conversions.
- Weber, David J., The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992). The masterwork by one of the leading borderlands scholars, setting the California experience in a larger context.