3.6: Suggested Readings
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- Chávez-García, Miroslava, Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004). An indepth examination of racial and gender relations in Mexican California.
- Haas, Lisbeth, Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769–1936 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990). A scholarly yet readable analysis of the changes in ethnic identities among Indians and Californios in southern California.
- Langum, David J., Law and Community on the Mexican Frontier: Anglo- American Expatriates and the Clash of Legal Traditions, 1821–1846 (London and Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987). The most thorough analysis of the Mexican legal system.
- Monroy, Douglas, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990). A new attempt to synthesize the new social history with California’s early history.
- Osio, Antonio María, The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996). One of the first survey histories of California written by a native Californio, and finally published after more than 100 years.
- Pico, Pío, Don Pío Pico’s Historical Narrative, Arthur P. Botello, trans. (Glendale, CA: Arthur Clark Co., 1973). An eyewitness account of many of the major events of Mexican California, written by the last Mexican governor.
- Rosenus, Alan, General M. G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995). An important study of one of the key Mexican political figures of this era.
- Weber, David J., The Mexican Frontier, 1821–1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982). One of the best surveys to place California’s Mexican period in the context of Mexican history.