HIS-466 Suggested Book Review List<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Available as an e-Book with GCU Library: Several of these titles will be \u201csingle user,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
Carl Abbott, How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America<\/p>\n
Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson (eds.): The Women\u2019s West<\/p>\n
Eve Ball, Indeh: An Apache Odyssey<\/p>\n
John Francis Bannon: The Spanish Borderlands Frontier<\/p>\n
Herbert E. Bolton: The Spanish Borderlands<\/p>\n
James Brooks, Captives and Cousins, Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands<\/p>\n
Juanita Brooks: The Mountain Meadows Massacre<\/p>\n
John Findlay: Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940<\/p>\n
Jack D. Forbes: Apache, Navaho and Spaniard<\/p>\n
Steven W. Hackel, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850<\/p>\n
Andrew L. Knaut: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680<\/p>\n
Erika Lee, At America\u2019s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exlcusion Era, 1882-1943<\/p>\n
Richard Lowitt: The New Deal and the West<\/p>\n
Robert M. Utley: The Indian Frontier of the American West<\/p>\n
John Walton: Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California<\/p>\n
David Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America<\/p>\n
David Weber: The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest under Mexico<\/p>\n
David Montejano: Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ray Allen Billington: Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier<\/p>\n
James N. Gregory: American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California<\/p>\n
Howard Lamar: The Far Southwest: A Territorial History<\/p>\n
Carey McWilliams: Southern California Country <\/p>\n
James Officer: Hispanic Arizona<\/p>\n
John Wesley Powell: The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons<\/p>\n
Henry Nash Smith: Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Carl Abbott: The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West<\/p>\n
Carl Abbott: The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities<\/p>\n
Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West<\/p>\n
Mike Davis: City of Quartz<\/p>\n
Mike Davis: Ecology of Fear<\/p>\n
Richard Etulain: Re-Imagining the Modern American West<\/p>\n
Kevin J. Fernlund: The Cold War American West, 1945-1989<\/p>\n
Laura Gomez, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race<\/p>\n
Peter Iverson, Din\u00e9, A History of the Navajos<\/p>\n
John L. Kessell, Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Jameson: All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek<\/p>\n
Ann Loftis: Witness to the Struggle: Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement<\/p>\n
Bradford Luckingham: Minorities in Phoenix<\/p>\n
Bradford Luckingham: The Urban Southwest<\/p>\n
Carey McWilliams: Factories in the Fields<\/p>\n
Maurice Mazon: The Zoot Suit Riots<\/p>\n
Frederick Merk: Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History<\/p>\n
David Montejano: Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas<\/p>\n
Gerald D. Nash: The American West in the 20th Century<\/p>\n
Gerald D. Nash: The American West Transformed: The Impact of World War II<\/p>\n
Walter Nugent: Into the West: The Story of Its People<\/p>\n
Marc Reisner: Cadillac Desert: The American Desert and its Disappearing Water<\/p>\n
William G. Robbins: Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West<\/p>\n
Randy Roberts and James S. Olson: A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory<\/p>\n
Jeff Roche (editor), The Political Culture of the New West<\/p>\n
Kevin Starr: Americans and the California Dream (1973)<\/p>\n
Kevin Starr: California: A History (2005)<\/p>\n
Wallace Stegner: The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail<\/p>\n
Roger Slotkin: Gunfighter Nation<\/p>\n
Donald Worster: The Dust Bowl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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