Revisioning California: Contemporary Environmental Movements

Primary

Anthony, Carl. "Why African Americans Should Become Environmentalists." Earth Island Journal (Winter 1990).

Avila, Magdalena. "David Versus Goliath." forward motion/Crossroads (April 1992).

Bronson, William. How to Kill a Golden State. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.

Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia. Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books, 1975.

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Commoner, Barry. The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology. New York: Knopf, 1971.

Dasmann, Raymond, and Peter Berg. "Reinhabiting California." The Ecologist 7, no. 10 (1977).

Devall, Bill, and George Sessions. Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1982.

Diamond, Irene, and Gloria Orenstein, eds. Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990.

Ehrlich, Paul. The Population Bomb. New York: Ballantine, 1968.

Gilliam, Harold. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Bay: The Struggle to Save San Francisco Bay. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1969.

Hart, John, ed. The New Book of California Tomorrow: Reflections and Projections from the Golden State. Los Altos, CA: W. Kaufman, 1984.

Krier, James E., and Edmund Ursin. Pollution and Policy: A Case Essay on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicles Air Pollution, 1940-1975. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

Misrach, Richard. Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990.

Snyder, Gary. A Place in Space. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995.

Wood, Samuel E., and Alfred E. Heller. California, Going, Going... Sacramento, CA: California Tomorrow, 1962.
 

Secondary

"A Century of Environmental Action: The Sierra Club, 1892-1992." California History (Summer 1992).

Adams, Robert. Los Angeles Spring. New York: Aperture, 1986.

Almaguer, Tomas. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Athearn, Robert G. The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986.

Baldwin, Donald N. The Quiet Revolution: Grass Roots of Todayís Wilderness Preservation Movement. Boulder, CO: Pruett Pub. Co., 1972.

Barrett, T., and P. Livermore. The Conservation Easement in California. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1983.

Brown, Michael. Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals. New York: Pantheon Book, 1980.

Camarillo, A. Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Cawley, R. McGreggor. Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1993.

Cohen, Michael P. The History of the Sierra Club. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988.

Conomos, T.J., ed. San Francisco Bay: The Urbanized Estuary. San Francisco: The Pacific Division, 1979.

Cook, Martin L. Saving the Earth: The History of a Middle-Class Millenarian Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Cornford, Daniel, ed. Working People of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Davis, Charles, ed. Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

Davis, Mike. "Los Angeles After the Storm: The Dialectics of Ordinary Disaster." Antipode 27, no. 3 (1995): 221-41.

Dippie, Brian W. The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Dolezel, Janine M., and Bruce N. Warren. "Saving San Francisco Bay: A Case Study in Environmental Legislation." Stanford Law Review (1971).

Dowie, M. American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

Dresslar, John H. "Agricultural Land Preservation in California: Time for a New View." Ecology Law Quarterly (1979).

Dunlap, Thomas R. DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Dunlap, Thomas. Saving Americaís Wildlife. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Endangered Harvest: The Future of Bay Area Farmland. San Francisco: People for Open Space, 1980.

Epstein, Barbara. Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Etulain, Richard. Re-Imagining the American West: A Century of Fiction, History and Art. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Foster, Douglas. "The Growing Battle over Pesticides in Drinking Water." California Journal (1983).

Fox, Stephen. John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Fradkin, Philip. A River No More: The Colorado River and the West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993.

Green, Stephen. "Glitches, Gremlins, and Swoap: Staggering along the Road to Toxic Waste Reform in California." California Journal (1985).

Haas, Lisbeth. Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Hanson, Dirk. The New Alchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.

Hays, Samuel P. Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Healy, Robert G., ed. Protecting the Golden Shore: Lessons from the California Coastal Commission. Washington, D.C.: Conservation Foundation, 1978.

Helvarg, D. The War Against the Greens: The Wise Use Movement, the New Right, and Anti-Environmental Violence. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Hine, Robert V. Californiaís Utopian Colonies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Hofrichter, Richard, ed. Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1993.

Horsman, Reginald. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Hynes, H. Patricia. The Recurring Silent Spring. New York: Pergamon Press, 1989.

Jensen, Deborah B., Margaret S. Torn, and John Harte. In Our Own Hands: A Strategy for Conserving Californiaís Biological Diversity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Kircher, Valerie C. "The Legislative Battle over Preserving Agricultural Land." California Journal (1976).

Kling, Rob, Spencer Olin, and Mark Poster, eds. Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County since World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Knox, Joseph B., and Ann Foley Scheuring, eds. Global Climate Change and California: Potential Impacts and Responses. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Kohm, Kathryn A. Balancing on the Brink of Extinction: The Endangered Species Act and Lessons for the Future. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1991.

Leshy, John. "Unraveling the Sagebrush Rebellion: Law, Politics, and Federal Lands." U.C. Davis Law Review 14, no. 2 (1980): 317-55.

Lillard, Richard G. Eden in Jeopardy; Manís Prodigal Meddling with His Environment: The Southern California Experience. New York: Knopf, 1966.

Lingenfelter, Richard E. Death Valley and the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Lo, Clarence Y. H. Small Property versus Big Government. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Lockmann, Ronald F. Guarding the Forests of Southern California: Evolving Attitudes Toward Conservation of Watershed, Woodlands, and Wilderness. Glendale, CA, 1981.

Manes, Christopher. Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.

Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880-1980. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.

Merchant, Carolyn. "Environmental Ethics and Political Conflict: A View from California." Environmental Ethics 12, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 45-68.

Merchant, Carolyn. "Environmental Ethics in California." Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1988.

Merchant, Carolyn. Earthcare: Women and the Environment. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Nash, Steven A., ed. Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism and the American Experience. New York: Praeger, 1969.

Novak, Barbara. Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Orsi, Jared. "Restoring the Common to the Goose: Citizen Activism and the Protection of the California Coastline, 1969-1982." Southern California Quarterly 78 (Fall 1996): 257-84.

Pendley, William Perry. War on the West: Government Tyranny on Americaís Great Frontier. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1995.

Petrillo, Joseph E., and Peter Grenell, eds. The Urban Edge: Where City Meets the Sea. Los Altos, CA: W. Kaufman, 1985.

Runte, Alfred. Public Lands, Public Heritage: The National Forest Idea. Niwot, CO: R. Rinehart, 1991.

Schrepfer, Susan R. "Establishing Administrative ëStandingí: The Sierra Club and the Forest Service, 1897-1956." Pacific Historical Review 58 (February 1989).

Scott, Allen J. Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Scott, Allen J., and Edward W. Soja, eds. The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Scott, Mel. The Future of San Francisco Bay. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1963.

Scott, Stanley, ed. Coastal Conservation: Essays on Experiments in Governance. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1981.

Short, C. Brant. Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: Americaís Conservation Debate, 1979-1984. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.

Spaulding, Jonathan. Ansel Adams and the American Landscape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Strong, Douglas H. "The Sierra Forest Reserve: The Movement to Preserve the San Joaquin Valley Watershed." Southern California Quarterly 46 (June 1967): 3-17.

Sugar, Jennifer F. "Hazardous Waste Disposal in Southern California." California Journal (1984).

Trefethen, James B. An American Crusade for Wildlife. New York: Winchester Press, 1975.

Truettner, William, ed. The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Walters, Dan. The New California: Facing the 21st Century. Sacramento: California Journal Press, 1986.

Wiley, Peter B., and Robert Gottlieb. Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the New American West. New York: Putnam, 1982.

Worster, Donald, ed. American Environmentalism: The Formative Period, 1860-1915. New York: Wiley, 1973.

Worster, Donald. Natureís Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Wyant, William K. Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Wyatt, David. The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.