HIS-466 Suggested Book Review List
The following lists are suggested books for you to use with your Book Review Assignment in Topic 2. Please pay attention to what the GCU Library has available and what titles you will need to be responsible for if not available via GCU.
If you wish to use a book that is not listed here, please check with your instructor for approval prior to obtaining and beginning on the assignment.
Available as an e-Book with GCU Library: Several of these titles will be “single user,” which allows only one student to read the book at a time. If you encounter a book that is in use, you may want to consider trying a different title, or waiting and returning to access that specific title at a different time when it is no longer in use.
Carl Abbott, How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson (eds.): The Women’s West
Eve Ball, Indeh: An Apache Odyssey
John Francis Bannon: The Spanish Borderlands Frontier
Herbert E. Bolton: The Spanish Borderlands
James Brooks, Captives and Cousins, Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Juanita Brooks: The Mountain Meadows Massacre
John Findlay: Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940
Jack D. Forbes: Apache, Navaho and Spaniard
Steven W. Hackel, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850
Andrew L. Knaut: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Erika Lee, At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exlcusion Era, 1882-1943
Richard Lowitt: The New Deal and the West
Robert M. Utley: The Indian Frontier of the American West
John Walton: Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California
David Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America
David Weber: The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest under Mexico
David Montejano: Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
Available as Hardback Copy Only: These are available at the GCU library building. If you are not able to physically go to the library, contact the library to see if the book is available to be sent to you.
Ray Allen Billington: Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier
James N. Gregory: American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California
Howard Lamar: The Far Southwest: A Territorial History
Carey McWilliams: Southern California Country
James Officer: Hispanic Arizona
John Wesley Powell: The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons
Henry Nash Smith: Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
Not Available via GCU Library: If you choose a book not available in the GCU library, you will be responsible for obtaining a copy, the library will not be able to interlibrary loan these titles.
Carl Abbott: The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West
Carl Abbott: The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities
Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
Mike Davis: City of Quartz
Mike Davis: Ecology of Fear
Richard Etulain: Re-Imagining the Modern American West
Kevin J. Fernlund: The Cold War American West, 1945-1989
Laura Gomez, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
Peter Iverson, Diné, A History of the Navajos
John L. Kessell, Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
Elizabeth Jameson: All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek
Ann Loftis: Witness to the Struggle: Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement
Bradford Luckingham: Minorities in Phoenix
Bradford Luckingham: The Urban Southwest
Carey McWilliams: Factories in the Fields
Maurice Mazon: The Zoot Suit Riots
Frederick Merk: Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History
David Montejano: Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas
Gerald D. Nash: The American West in the 20th Century
Gerald D. Nash: The American West Transformed: The Impact of World War II
Walter Nugent: Into the West: The Story of Its People
Marc Reisner: Cadillac Desert: The American Desert and its Disappearing Water
William G. Robbins: Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West
Randy Roberts and James S. Olson: A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory
Jeff Roche (editor), The Political Culture of the New West
Kevin Starr: Americans and the California Dream (1973)
Kevin Starr: California: A History (2005)
Wallace Stegner: The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
Roger Slotkin: Gunfighter Nation
Donald Worster: The Dust Bowl