Bibliography and Links
Related Publications (nonfiction):
Tomás Almaguer, Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California (1994).
Sucheng Chan, This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910 (1989).
Philip Ethington. The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 (1994).
Robert M. Fogelson, The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles 1850-1930 (1967)
Maxine Hong Kingston. China Men (1981).
Michael O’Laughlin and P.J. Donahue. Irish Settlers on the American Frontier Alexander Saxton. Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971).
Gloria Ricci Lothrop, ed. Fulfilling the Promise of California: An Anthology of Essays on the Italian American Experience in California (2000).
Haiming Lui, The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, Reverse Migration (2005).
Carey McWilliams. Southern California: An Island on the Land (1946).
Catherine Mulholland. William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles (2002).
Charles Nordhoff. California for Health, Pleasure and Residence (1873).
Frank Norris. “The Vineyards of the Italian-Swiss Colony at Asti” (1896).
Thomas Pinney. A History of Wine in America from the Beginnings to Prohibition (1989).
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001).
Stan Steiner, The Chinese Who Built America: The Chinese Railroad Men (1979).
Ronald Takaki. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1989).
Laurence Yep, Dragon’s Gate (1993).
Related Publications (fiction):
Sara White Isaman. Tourist Tales of Southern California (1907).
Kate Sanborn. A Truthful woman in Southern California (1894).
Web / Multimedia Suggestions:
James Duval Phelan
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/phelanbio.html
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/hgeorge.html
Photos of Chinese Life in California (note: site is in Chinese)
http://cprr.org/Chinese.html
Railroad maps
http://cprr.org/Museum/Maps/index.html
Responses to Immigration
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/kearneyism.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/kearneyism.html
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/chineseamericans/2KeyIssues/DenisKearneyCalifAnti.htm
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5046
The Sebastiani Family
http://www.sebastiani.com/family/family_home.asp
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3488/is_3_85/ai_n6057241
Terminology links:
Chinatowns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinatowns
Chinese Exclusion Act
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=419
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=47
Civil War
http://www.civil-war.net/
Ellis Island
http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island.asp
First transcontinental railroad
http://www.cprr.org/
Foodways
http://www.usm.edu/antsoc/anthro/teaching/foodways.html
Great Potato Famine
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/ss/irish/irish_pf.html
Great Wall of China
http://www.greatwall-of-china.com/
Naturalization Act of 1790
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617002/posts
Panic of 1873
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/narr3.html
Santa Fe line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchison%2C_Topeka_and_Santa_Fe_Railway
Workingmen’s Party of California
http://www.shapingsf.org/ezine/labor/workingmens/main.html