7.7: Suggested Readings
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- Brechin, Gray, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999). A highly critical account of the growth of the city and its effect on its environment.
- Cherny, Robert, Irwin, Mary Ann, and Wilson, Ann Marie, eds., California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2011). An anthology that surveys women’s involvement in state and local politics before and after woman suffrage.
- Deverell, William, and Sitton, Tom, eds., California Progressivism Revisited (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994). An anthologymfocused on class, gender, and ethnicity in California progressivism,mintended to supplement and revise earlier treatments.
- Gullett, Gayle, Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women’s Movement, 1880–1911 (Urbana: University of IllinoismPress, 2000). A thorough study of California women’s efforts to achievemsuffrage.
- Kahrl, William L., Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles’ WatermSupply in the Owens Valley (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University ofmCalifornia Press, 1982). The most thorough account of the acquisition ofmthe Owens Valley by Los Angeles.
- Kazin, Michael, Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades andmUnion Power in the Progressive Era (Urbana and Chicago: University ofmIllinois Press, 1987). An outstanding history of one of the most powerfulmlabor organizations in the country.
- Lower, Richard Coke, A Bloc of One: The Political Career of Hiram W. Johnson (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993). A thorough and wellwrittenmbiography of the most influential progressive leader.
- Mowry, George E., The California Progressives (Berkeley: University ofmCalifornia Press, 1951). The classic account, still interesting and useful but needs to be read with more recent treatments.
- Olin, Spencer C., California’s Prodigal Sons: Hiram Johnson and the Progressives, 1911–1917 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968). A good introduction to events and issues in state politics in the progressive era.
- Walsh, James P., and O’Keefe, Timothy J., Legacy of a Native Son: James Duval Phelan and Villa Montalvo (Los Gatos: Forbes Mill Press, 1993). A thoroughly researched and well-written biography of the state’s leading Democrat during the early 20th century.
- Wallis, Eileen, Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880–1930 (Reno: University of Nevada, 2010). Interesting study of ethnicity, class, and gender as they affected the lives of working women in Los Angeles.
- Walton, John, Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992). A good treatment of the many dimensions of the politics of water.