Reading List - Dissertation
The list here is a frequently changing list of things I will read or re-read organized by theme. Books or articles that have been read are followed by a link to my notes. I am maintaining a Zotero database for a more complete set of citations.
Science and Technology
- Jane Abbate, Inventing the Internet (1999) abbate1999
- Jane Abbate, “Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet” Business History Review (2001) abbate2001
- Jane Abbate, “Privatizing the Internet” IEEE (2010) abbate2010
- Atsushi Akera, Calculating a Natural World (2007)
- Kenneth Flamm, Targeting the Computer (1987) flamm1987
- Stuart Leslie, The Cold War and American Science (1993) leslie1993
- Robert Nickel, “Dollars, Defense, and the Desert” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (2004) nickel2004
- Robert Preer, The Emergence of Technopolis (1992) preer1992
- John Rees, ed., Technology, Regions, and Policy (1986)
Postwar West
- James Clayton, “The Impact of the Cold War on the Economies of California and Utah, 1946-1965,” Pacific Historical Review 36 (November 1967: 449-473) clayton1967
- Timothy Egan, Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West (1998) egan1998lasso
- Volker Janssen, Where Minds and Matters Meet (2012) janssen2012
- Robert D. Kaplan, An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future (1998) kaplan1998wilderness
- Richard Lowitt, The New Deal and the West (1984) lowitt1984
- Gerald Nash, The American West Transformed (1990) nash1990
- Gerald Nash, World War II and the West (1990) nash1990a
- Gerald Nash, The Federal Landscape (1999) nash1999landscape
- Jeff ROche, ed., The Political Culture of the New West roche2008politicalculture
- George E. Webb, Science in the American Southwest
- Richard White, “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own” (1991) white1991misfortune
Urban / Suburbanization
- Carl Abbott, “Frontiers and Sections” American Quarterly (1985) abbott1985
- Carl Abbott, “Regional City and Network City” Western Historical Quarterly (1992) abbott1992
- Carl Abbott, Metropolitan Frontier (1995) abbott1995
- Carl Abbott, How Cities Won the West (2008) abbott2008
- Bakken and Farrington, The Urban West (2001) bakken2001
- David Beers, Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace (1997) beers1997bluesky
- Charlotte Brooks, Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
- Richard Dean, Imperial Brotherhood
- Darren Dochuk and Michelle Nickerson, eds., Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region in the American South and Southwest (2010)
- Mark Clapson, Suburban Century (2003)
- Robert Fairbanks, ed., Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America (1990)
- John Findlay, Magic Lands (1993) findlay1993
- Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias (1987)
- Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985) jackson1985suburbanization
- Matthew Lassiter, “The New Suburban History II: Political Culture and Metropolitan Space,” *Journal of Planning
- Louise A. Mozingo. Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes (2011) mozingo2011pastoral
- Spencer Olin, “Globalization and the Politics of Locality: Orange County, California, in the Cold War Era.” Western Historical Quarterly 22:2 (May 1991): 143-161 olin1991
- Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001) rome2001bulldozer
- Thomas J. Sugrue “All Politics Is Local: The Persistence of Localism in Twentieth- Century America.” In The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, 301–326, 2003.
- Robert O. Self, American Babylon (2003) self2003
- Christopher C. Sellers, Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America (2012) sellers2012crabgrass
- Thomas Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996)
- Stephen Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War
- Sharon Zukin, Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (1991) zukin1991landscapes
Environmental / Western Water
- Philip Fradkin, A River No More: The Colorado River and the West (1996)
- Eric T. Freyfogle, “Lux v. Haggin and the Common Law Burden of Modern Water Rights.” University of Colorado Law Review 57 (Spring 1986): 485-525
- Hugh Hammond Bennett, “Soil and Water Relationships in Western Political Economy,” Western Political Quarterly 1 (Dec. 1948): 404-412
- Norris Hundley, Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West (1975)
- Michael Logan, The Lessening Stream GF504 .A6 L64 2002
- J. R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun (2000)
- Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (1986)
- Richard White, The Organic Machine (1995) white1995
- Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (1985)
California
Stanford / Research Parks / Industrialization
- Stuart W. Leslie and Bruce Hevly, “Steeple Building at Stanford: Electrical Engineering, Physics and Microwave Research,” Proceedings of the IEEE 73 (July 1985): 1169-1180.
- Stuart W. Leslie, “Playing the Education Game to Win: The Military and Interdisciplinary Research at Stanford,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 18 (1987): 55-58.
- Rebecca Lowen, Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford (1997) lowen1997
- John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said (2005) markoff2005
- Margaret O’Mara, Cities of Knowledge (2005) omara2005
- Allen J. Scott, Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (1993)
Silicon Valley
- Aaron Cavin, “The Borders of Citizenship: The Politics of Race and Metropolitan Space in Silicon Valley,” Ph.D. diss., 2012 cavin2012
- Jeff Goodell, Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family (2000)
- Martin Kenney, ed., Understanding Silicon Valley (2000) kenney2000
- Stuart W. Leslie, “The Biggest ‘Angel’ of Them All: The Military and the Making of Silicon Valley” leslie2000angel
- Thomas Mahon, Charged Bodies: People, Power, and Paradox in Silicon Valley (1985) mahon1985chargedbodies
- David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park, The Silicon Valley of Dreams (2002) pellow_park2002
- Stephen Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley (2003) pitti2003
- Renya Ramirez, Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond (2007)
- AnnaLee Saxenian, Regional Advantage (1996) saxenian1996
- Timothy Sturgeon, “How Silicon Valley Came to Be” sturgeon2000valley
- Cecilia Tsu, “Grown in the ‘Garden of the World’: Race, Gender, and Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley, 1880-1940” Ph.D. diss.
- Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) turner2006
California Water
- Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (1997)
- Matthew Booker, Down by the Bay: San Francisco’s History between the Tides (2013)
- Sarah S. Elkind, “Industry and Water Distribution in California: The East Bay Municipal Utility District, 1920-1930.” Environmental History Review 18 (Winter 1994): 63-88
- William DeBuys, Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California (1999)
- Robert Gottlieb and Margaret FitzSimmons, Thirst for Growth: Water Agencies as Hidden Government in California (1991)
- Harvey P. Grody, “From North to South: The Feather River Project and Other Legislative Water Struggles in the 1950’s.” Southern California Quarterly 60, no. 3 (1978): 287-326
- Barney Hope and M. Sheehan, “Political Economy of Centralized Water Supply in California.” Social Science Journal 20 (April 1983): 29-39
- Norris Hundley, Jr., The Great Thirst (2001) hundley2001thirst
- Lawrence B. Lee, “California Water Politics: Opposition to the CVP, 1944-1980.” Agricultural History 54, no. 3 (1980): 402-23
- David R. Long, “Pipe Dreams: Hetch Hetchy, the Urban West, and the Hydraulic Society Revisited.” Journal of the West 34 (July 1995): 19-31
- Robert Righter, The Battle over Hetch Hetchy (2005) righter2005
- Robert de Roos, The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project (1948)
- David Seckler, California Water (1971) HD1694.C2 C35 1971
- John A. Shaw, “Railroads, Irrigation, and Economic Growth: The San Joaquin Valley of California.” Explorations in Economic History (1974)
- John Walton, Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California (1992)
- Edward Williams, Open Space: The Choices before California (1969) HD211.C2 W5
- Donald Worster, “Hydraulic Society in California: An Ecological Interpretation.” Agricultural History 56 (July 1982): 503-15
California Suburbanization
- David E. Dowall, The Suburban Squeeze: Land Conversion and Regulation in the San Francisco Bay Area (1984) dowall1984suburban
- Mel Scott, The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective (1959) scott1959bayarea
- David Beers, Blue Sky Dream
- Joan Didion, Where I Was From
- Robert C. Fellmeth, Politics of Land: Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on Land Use in California (1973) nader1973land
- Bernard Friedan, The Environmental Protection Hustle (1979) friedan1979hustle
- Stephanie S. Pincetl, Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development (1999) pincetl1999transforming
- Richard Walker, The Country and the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (2007) walker2008countrycity