6.6: Suggested Readings
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- Chan, Sucheng, Asian Californians (San Francisco: MTL/Boyd & Fraser, 1991). Though not limited to the Gilded Age, this book has a great deal of information about Asian immigrants during that time period.
- Garone, Philip, The Rise and Fall of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). The first comprehensive environmental history of the Central Valley.
- Hundley, Norris, Jr., The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s–1990s (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992). Ranges widely over the history of the state, but contains a good treatment of water issues during the Gilded Age.
- Igler, David, Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001). An interesting account of a company that played a major role in changing the ecology of the San Joaquin Valley.
- Issel, William, and Cherny, Robert W., San Francisco, 1865–1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986). Surveys social and economic patterns as well as politics.
- Levy, Harriet Lane, 920 O’Farrell Street (1937; reprinted, Berkeley: Heyday Press, 1996). Memoirs of growing up in a Jewish, middle-class family in San Francisco during the Gilded Age.
- Monroy, Douglas, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990). An excellent treatment of Mexican Californians during the late 19th century.
- Ngai, Mae, The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2010). The fascinating story of Joseph and Mary Tape and their children.
- Orsi, Richard, Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). The best treatment of the subject.
- Shumsky, Neil L., The Evolution of Political Protest and the Workingmen’s Party of California (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991). Currently the standard treatment of the Workingmen’s Party of California.
- Vaught, David, Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). An essential work for understanding changes in California agriculture that accompanied the development of specialty crops.
- White, Richard, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011). A recent, often amusing, and devastatingly critical appraisal of the transcontinental railroads.