MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
History
3001/5001
Spring,
2006
California
& the American West
Mr.
Bowling
Books:
Kevin
Starr, California:
A History (New York, 2005).
H.
W. Brands, The
Age of Gold; The California
Gold Rush
&
the American Dream (New York, 2002).
Robert
C. Cleland, The
Irvine Ranch (San Marino, 2003).
David
Igler, Industrial
Cowboys: Miller & Lux & the Transformation
of the Far
West, 1850-1920 (Berkeley, 2001).
Neil
Gabler, An
Empire of their Own; How the Jews Invented
Hollywood
(New York, 1989).
William
Deverell, Whitewashed
Adobe; The Rise of Los Angeles &
the Remaking
of the Mexican Past (Berkeley, 2005).
Catherine
Mulholland, William
Mulholland & the Rise of Los
Angeles (Berkeley, 2002).
Mark
Arax & Rick Wartzman,
The King of
California; J. G. Boswell
& the
Making of a Secret American Empire
(New York, 2003).
C.
Y. Lee, The
Flower Drum Song (New York, 2002 [1957]).
Marcia
A. Eymann, ed. What's Going On? California & the Vietnam
Era
(Berkeley,
2004).
Requirements:
1.
Attendance.
2. Participation.
3. Readings.
4. Successful completion of two examinations.
5.
A
critical paper, c. 15 pp. for undergraduates, c. 25 pp.
for graduate students, a complete,
typewritten draft of
which is due on March 20th.
Schedule:
Jan. 23
California Dreaming
Jan.
30 Origins
& Overview
(Starr, first two-thirds)
Feb. 6 On the Road to Finding
Gold
(Brands)
Feb. 13
The Story
of Irvine
(Cleland)
Feb. 20
The Age
of Enterprise in San
Francisco
(Igler)
Feb. 27
M I D T E R M E X A M I N A T I O N
Mar. 6
S P R I N G B R E A K
Mar. 13 Hollywood's
Early Days
(Gabler)
Mar. 20
L.A.
& its "Spanish" Past
(Deverell)
c o m p l e t e , t y p e w r i t t e n d r a f t
o f p a p e r i s d u e t o d a y .
Mar. 27 Water,
Water, from North to South
(Mulholland)
Apr.
3 The Agricultural
World
(Arax & Wartzman)
Apr. 10
The
World of the Immigrant
(Lee)
Apr. 17 What Happened in
the
Sixties?
(Eymann)
Apr. 24 Contemporary
Californian
(Starr,
last third)