California

Last update: 03 Oct 1994 12:00
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Culture, cultural exports, immigrants, how it is seen by others, how it is seen by itself. Esp. San Francisco and Berkeley.

Recommended:
• Mike Davis, City of Quartz [Though parts of it really iritated me, at least in style]
• Joan Didion
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem
  • The White Album
• John McPhee, Assembling California
• Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

To read:
• H. W. Brands, The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
• Joan Didion, Where I Was From
• Philip Fradkin, The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History
• Lynn H. Gamble, The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
• Kathryn S. Olmstead, Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
• Allan A. Schoenherr, A Natural History of California
• Peter Schrag, California: America's High-Stakes Experiment
• Scott A. Shields, Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875--1907