Compiled by Clifton L. Holland
for the IDEA-GLAMA Research and Information Network
(Revised May 24, 1999)
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Alan-Williams, Gregory et al
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unknown, 1994.
Anderson, E. Frederick
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Blanche, Tony et al
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The Negro in Los Angeles. Reprint of
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Bottles, Scott L.
Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the
Modern City. Berkeley, CA: University of California
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Boucher, David
Ride the Devil Wind: A History of the Los Angeles
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Districts. Publisher unknown, 1991.
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Brook, Stephen
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Burby, Liza N.
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Burns O'Connor, Letitia
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Clark, David L.
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Cleland, Robert Glass
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Cole, Carolyn Kozo (editor)
Shades of L.A.: Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums. Publisher
unknown, 1996.
Collins, Keith
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Crouch, Winston and Beatrice Dinerman
California Metropolis, A Study in Development of
Government for a Metropolitan Area. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1963.
Crump, Spencer
Ride the Big Red Cars. Costa Mesa, CA:
Trans-Anglo, 3rd edition, 1970.
Davis, Mike
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.
New York: Ventage Books, 1992.
Dear, Michael J., editor
Rethinking Los Angeles. Beverly Hills,
CA: Sage Publications, 1996.
De Graaf, Lawrence
"The City of the Black Angels: Emergence of the Los Angeles
Ghetto, 1890-1930," pp. 323-352 in Pacific
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Del Castillo, Richard Griswold
The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890.
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Delk, James D.
Fires and Furies: The L.A. Riots--What Really
Happened. Publisher unknown, 1994.
Dumke, Glenn S.
The Boom of the Eighties in Southern California.
San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1944 (a description of
the real estate/housing boom in L.A. county in the 1880s with a
description of each major city/region).
Dunitz, Robin J. and James Prigoff
Street Gallary: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Publisher
unknown, 1998.
Elmore, Ralph M.
"Discipling Inner City Peoples: Models for Church Growth
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Thesis in Missiology. Pasadena, CA: Fuller Theological Seminary,
School of World Mission, 1981.
Escobar, Edward J.
Race, Police and the Making of a Political Identity:
Relations Between Chicanos and the Los Angeles Police Department,
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Fogelson, Robert M.
The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930.
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1967 edition.
Ford, John Anson
Thirty Explosive Years in Los Angeles County
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Fradkin, Philip L.
The Seven States of California. New
York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995 (see Chapter VII, "The
Profligate Province," pp. 269-314, on Southern California).
Friedricks, William B.
Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern
California. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University,
1992.
Friis, Leo J.
Orange County Through Four Centuries. Pioneer
Press, 1965.
Fulton, William
The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban
Growth in Los Angeles. Point Arena, CA: Solano
Press, 1997.
Garreau, Joel
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. See
Chapter 8, "Southern California," pages 261-302. New
York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1991.
Greenstein, Paul et al
Bread and Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los
Angeles. Publisher unknown, 1992.
Grenier, Judson A. (editor-in-chief)
A Guide of Historical Places in Los Angeles County. Prepared
under the auspices of the History Team of the City of Los Angeles
American Revolution Bicentennial Committee. Dubuque, Iowa:
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1978.
Guinn, James Miller
A History of California and an Extended History of
Los Angeles and Environs. Los Angeles: Historical
Record Company, 1915.
Gumprecht, Blake
Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death and Possible
Rebirth. Publisher unknown, 1999.
Hamilton, Sue L. and John Hamilton (editors)
Los Angeles Riots: The Day of the Disaster. Publisher
unknown, 1992.
Hayden, Dolores
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public
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Heizer, Robert F. (editor)
The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid Letters
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Henstell, Bruce
Los Angeles: An Illustrated History. New
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Herbert, Stephen Kelly
Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles
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Hise, Greg
Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century
Metropolis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
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Holland, Clifton L.
The Religious Dimension in Hispanic Los Angeles: A
Protestant Case Study. South Pasadena, CA: William
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Horne, Gerald
Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s. Publisher
unknown, 1995.
Horton, John
The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance
and Change in Monterey Park, California. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1995.
Hoskyns, Barney
Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Wierd Scenes and
the Sound of Los Angeles. Publisher unknown, 1997.
Jankowski, Martin Sanchez
Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban
Society. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1991.
Johnston, Bernice Eastman
California's Gabrielino Indians. Los
Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1962.
Katz, Samuel M.
LAPD: Patrol, SWAT, Air Support, K-9, Crash and
Homicide. Publisher unknown, 1997.
Kelley, Ron, Jonathan Friedlander and Anita Colby (editors)
Irangeles: Iranians in Los Angeles. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Klien, Norman H. (editor)
20th Century Los Angeles: Power, Promotion and Social
Conflict. Publisher unknown, 1990.
Kling, Rob and Spencer Olin and Mark Poster (editors)
Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange
County since World War II. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1991.
Klien, Norman M.
The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the
Erasure of Memory. Publisher unknown, 1997.
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contrasting the past and present).
Kurahashi, Yuko
Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of East
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1999.
La Lona, Mary
"Gabrielino Indians of Southern California: An Annotated
Ethnohistoric Bibliography," Occasional Paper #6, Institute
of Archaeology, UCLA, 1980.
Liu, Felix Fu-Li
"A Comparative Study of Selected Growing Chinese Churches in
Los Angeles County." Unpublished Doctor of Missiology
Dissertation. Pasadena, CA: Fuller Theological Seminary, School
of World Mission, 1981.
Longstreth, Richard
The Drive-In, the Supermarket and the Transformation
of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941. Publisher
unknown, 1999.
City Center to Regional Mall: Architechure, the Automobile and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950. Publisher unknown, 1997.
Los Angeles 2000 Committee
L.A. 2000: A City for the Future. Final
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Los Angeles County Almanac
Los Angeles County Almanac: A Guide to Government and
Politics. 32nd Edition. Alhambra, CA: Los Angeles
County Almanac, 1995.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
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Los Angeles Times
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the Rodney King Case. Los Angeles: Los Angeles
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Martinez, Al
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unknown, 1996.
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Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea. Chicago,
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Modell, John
The Economic and Politics of Racial Accomodation: The
Japanese of Los Angeles, 1900-1942. Publisher
unknown, 1977.
Monroy, Douglas
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Moore, Deborah Dash
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Nadeau, Remi
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York: Longmans & Green, 1960.
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1976.
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Jottings in Southern California History. Los
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Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. Publisher
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Angeles, 1850-1887. Jericho, NY: Exposition Press,
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The Widening Divide: Income Inequality and Poverty in
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Pearlstone, Zena
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Perry, Louis B. and Richard S. Perry
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Rabinovitz, Francine F. and William J. Siembieda
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Rieff, David
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the Twentieth Century. Berkeley, CA: University of
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Shevsky, Eshref and Marylin William
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CA: University of California Press, 1988.
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Scandal During the Roaring Twenties. Publisher
unknown, 1994.
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Workman, Boyle
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Yarbrough Coy, Bette
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and date unknown.
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GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS:
Acuña, Rodolfo F.
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. New
York: Harper & Row, 1981.
Bailey, Harry P.
The Climate of Southern California. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1966
Bogardus, Emory
The Mexican in the United States. Los
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Chartkoff, Joseph L. and Kerry Kona Chartkoff
The Archaeology of California. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Costo, Rupert and Jeannette Henry Costo (editors)
The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. San
Francisco, CA: Indian Historical Press, 1987.
Grebler, Leo with Joan W. Moore and Ralph C. Guzmán
The Mexican American People. New York:
The Free Press, 1970.
Heizer, Robert F. (editor)
The Destruction of the California Indians. Lincoln,
NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1974
Heizer, Robert F. and M. A. Whipple (editors)
The California Indians: A Source Book. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press, 1971 (second edition, revised
and enlarged; first edition 1951); see pages 186-201: "A
Suggested Chronology for Southern California Coastal
Archaeology," by William J. Wallace.
Heppenheimer, T. A.
The Coming Quake: Science and Trembling on the
California Earthquake Frontier. New York: Paragon
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Jahns, Richard H. (editor)
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Jackson, Robert H.
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Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840. Albuquerque, NM:
University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Kroeber, A. L.
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York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976 (reprint of 1925 edition).
Melton, J. Gordon
Encyclopedia of American Religions. Detroit,
MI: Gale Publishing Company, 1978 (2nd edition, 2 volumes);
Terrytown, NY: Triumph Books, 1991 (4th edition, 3 volumes);
Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1996 (5th edition, one volume).
Monroy, Douglas
Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture
in Frontier California. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 1990.
Mumford, Lewis
The City in History: Its Origins, Its
Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York, NY:
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1989 (1961).
Neusner, Jacob (editor)
World Religions in America: An Introduction. Louisville,
KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994.
Pitt, Leonard
The Decline of the Californios. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1966.
Pitt, Leonard and Dale Pitt
Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and
County. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1997.
Starr, Kevin
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era. [1850-1920]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
Strong, William Duncan
Aboriginal Society in Southern California. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1929.
Sturtevant, William C.
Handbook of North American Indians. Volume
8: California. Volume editor, Robert F.
Heizer. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
Thernstrom, Stephan (editor)
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Waldman, Carl
Atlas of the North American Indian. New
York: Facts on File, Inc., 1985.
Weber, David J.
The Spanish Frontier in North America. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.
Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities
"Seismic Hazards in Southern California: Probably
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of the Seismological Society of America, April 1995,
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