A History of California

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Sources

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    Arrigo, Linda: "Patterns of Personal and Political Life Among Taiwanese-Americans" (2006)
  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe: "History of California: 1848–1859. Vol. XXIII" (1988)
  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe: "History of California: 1860–1890. Vol. XXIV" (1988)
  • Blackburn, Abner: "Biography of my Adventures" (1851)
  • Chang, Gordon: "The Chinese and the Iron Road/ Ghosts of Gold Mountain" (2019)
    Chang, Iris: "The Chinese in America" (2003)
  • Chen, Aspen: “Going to America” (2021)
  • Chen, Yong: "Chinese San Francisco, 1850–1943" (2000)
  • Chinn, Thomas: "A History of the Chinese in California" (1969) (I digitized it because it doesn't seem to be in print anymore)
  • City of Los Angeles: "Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, 1850-1980" (2018)
  • Crouch, Gregory: "The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West" (2018)
  • DeQuille, Dan: "A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines" (1889)
    Faragher, John: "California" (2022)
  • Flood, Frances: "A Study of Architecture of the Period l869-l900" (1941)
  • Fogelson, Robert: "Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930" (1967)
  • Gregory, James: "American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California" (1989)
  • Guinn, James Miller: "A History of California" (1915)
  • Hardesty, Donald: "Archeology and the Chinese Experience in Nevada" (2003)
  • Hicks, Jack: "The Literature of California Volume 1" (2000)
  • Hildebrand, Evelyn: "The Chinese in California: "Archaeology and Railroads at the Turn of the Century" (2020)
  • Issel, William and Cherny, Robert: "San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development" (1986)
  • James, Holliday: "The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience" (1981)
  • Li, Wei: "Ethnoburb - The New Ethnic Community in Urban America" (2009)
  • Lienhard, Heinrich: "A pioneer at Sutter's fort 1846-1850" (1898)
  • Lotchin, Roger: "San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to Modern City" (1974)
  • Lyman, Chester: "Around the Horn" (1850)
  • Massey, Douglas: "Ethnic Residential Segregation" (1985)
  • McWilliams, Carey: "California: the Great Exception" (1999)
  • Millard, Bailey: History of the San Francisco Bay Region (1924)
  • Model, Suzanne: "Why are Asian-Americans Educationally Hyper-selected? The Case of Taiwan" (2018)
  • Myrick, David: "Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California" (1962)
  • Norton, Henry: "The Story of California" (1913)
  • Pfaelzer, Jean: "Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans" (2008)
  • Pisani, Donald: "From Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California, 1850-1931" (1984)
  • Polk, Michael: "Chinese Workers at Central Pacific" (2019)
  • Procter, Ben: "William Randolph Hearst - The Early Years, 1863- 1910" (1998)
  • Rice, Richard: "The Elusive Eden: A New History of California" (2019)
  • Saxenian, AnnaLee: "Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs" (1999)
  • Saxton, Alexander: "The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti- Chinese Movement in California" (1971)
  • Scaruffi, Piero: "A History of Silicon Valley" (2014)
  • Scott, Edward: "The Saga of Lake Tahoe" (1957)
  • Shamberger, Hugh: "The Story of the Water Supply for the Comstock" (1972)
  • Speer, William: "The Oldest and The Newest Empire" (1877)
  • Starr, Kevin: "Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915" (1986)
  • Starr, Kevin: "The Dream Endures - California Enters the 1940s" (1997)
  • Straka. Thomas: "Timber for the Comstock" (2008)
  • Takaki, Ronald: "Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans" (1989)
  • Walker, Franklin: "San Francisco’s Literary Frontier" (1939)
  • Workman, Boyle: "The City That Grew" (1936)
or, better, chronologically:
  • Lyman, Chester: "Around the Horn" (1850)
  • Blackburn, Abner: "Biography of my Adventures" (1851)
  • Speer, William: "The Oldest and The Newest Empire" (1877)
  • DeQuille, Dan: "A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines" (1889)
  • Lienhard, Heinrich: "A pioneer at Sutter's fort 1846-1850" (1898)
  • Norton, Henry: "The Story of California" (1913)
  • Guinn, James Miller: "A History of California" (1915)
  • Millard, Bailey: History of the San Francisco Bay Region (1924)
  • Workman, Boyle: "The City That Grew" (1936)
  • Walker, Franklin: "San Francisco’s Literary Frontier" (1939)
  • Flood, Frances: "A Study of Architecture of the Period l869-l900" (1941)
  • Scott, Edward: "The Saga of Lake Tahoe" (1957)
  • Myrick, David: "Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California" (1962)
  • Fogelson, Robert: "Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930" (1967)
  • Chinn, Thomas: "A History of the Chinese in California" (1969) (I digitized it because it doesn't seem to be in print anymore)
  • Saxton, Alexander: "The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti- Chinese Movement in California" (1971)
  • Shamberger, Hugh: "The Story of the Water Supply for the Comstock" (1972)
  • Lotchin, Roger: "San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to Modern City" (1974)
  • James, Holliday: "The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience" (1981)
  • Pisani, Donald: "From Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California, 1850-1931" (1984)
  • Massey, Douglas: "Ethnic Residential Segregation" (1985)
  • Starr, Kevin: "Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915" (1986)
  • Issel, William and Cherny, Robert: "San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development" (1986)
  • Starr, Kevin: "The Dream Endures - California Enters the 1940s" (1997)
  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe: "History of California: 1848–1859. Vol. XXIII" (1988)
  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe: "History of California: 1860–1890. Vol. XXIV" (1988)
  • Takaki, Ronald: "Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans" (1989)
  • Gregory, James: "American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California" (1989)
  • Procter, Ben: "William Randolph Hearst - The Early Years, 1863- 1910" (1998)
  • McWilliams, Carey: "California: the Great Exception" (1999)
  • Saxenian, AnnaLee: "Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs" (1999)
  • Chen, Yong: "Chinese San Francisco, 1850–1943" (2000)
  • Hicks, Jack: "The Literature of California Volume 1" (2000)
  • Hardesty, Donald: "Archeology and the Chinese Experience in Nevada" (2003)
    Chang, Iris: "The Chinese in America" (2003)
    Arrigo, Linda: "Patterns of Personal and Political Life Among Taiwanese-Americans" (2006)
    Chang, Iris: "The Chinese in America" (2003)
  • Pfaelzer, Jean: "Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans" (2008)
  • Straka. Thomas: "Timber for the Comstock" (2008)
  • Li, Wei: "Ethnoburb - The New Ethnic Community in Urban America" (2009)
  • Scaruffi, Piero: "A History of Silicon Valley" (2014)
  • Model, Suzanne: "Why are Asian-Americans Educationally Hyper-selected? The Case of Taiwan" (2018)
  • City of Los Angeles: "Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, 1850-1980" (2018)
  • Crouch, Gregory: "The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West" (2018)
  • Chang, Gordon: "The Chinese and the Iron Road/ Ghosts of Gold Mountain" (2019)
  • Polk, Michael: "Chinese Workers at Central Pacific" (2019)
  • Rice, Richard: "The Elusive Eden: A New History of California" (2019)
  • Hildebrand, Evelyn: "The Chinese in California: "Archaeology and Railroads at the Turn of the Century" (2020)
  • Chen, Aspen: “Going to America” (2021)
  • Faragher, John: "California" (2022)

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