MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

 

History 3001/5001                                             Spring, 2003

California & the American West                        Mr. Bowling

 

 

Books:

 

Brian Roberts, American Alchemy; The California Gold Rush

          and Middle-Class Culture (Chapel Hill, 2000).

David Vaught, Cultivating California; Growers, Specialty Crops,

          and Labor, 1875-1920 (Baltimore, 1999).

Clark Davis, Company Men; White-Collar Life and Corporate 

          Culture in Los Angeles, 1892-1941 (Baltimore, 2000).

Madeline Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home;

          Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States

and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford, 2000).

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (New York, 1939).

Sam B. Girgus, Hollywood Renaissance; The Cinema of

          Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan

          (Cambridge, 1998).

Roger Lotchin, The Way We Really Were; The Golden State in

          the Second Great War (Urbana, 1999).

Kirse Granat May, Golden State, Golden Youth; The California

          Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966 (Chapel Hill, 2002).

Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors; The Origins of the New American

          Right (Princeton, 2001).

Matt Garcia, A World of Its Own; Race, Labor, and Citrus in the

          Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (Chapel Hill, 2002).

Chester Hartman, City for Sale; The Transformation of San

          Francisco (Berkeley, 1993).

Brian Ascalan Roley, American Son (New York, 2001).

 

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 17^th.

 

Schedule:

 

Jan. 27                 California Dreaming

                            

Feb. 3                   The World of the 49ers

                                      (Roberts)

 

Feb. 10                 On the Road to Agricultural Prominence

                                      (Vaught)

 

Feb. 17                 The Development of Modern Los Angeles

                                      (Davis)

 

Feb. 19                 The Chinese in (and out) of California

                                      (Hsu)

 

Feb. 24                 M I D T E R M   E X A M I N A T I O N

 

Mar. 3                  The Joads in California & What They Found There

                                      (Steinbeck)

 

Mar. 10                S P R I N G   B R E A K

 

Mar. 17                Hollywood Portrays America

                                      (Girgus)

 

                   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. 24                World War II Transforms California

                                      (Lotchin)

 

Mar. 31                The California of the Beach Boys

                                      (May)

 

Apr. 7                   The Story of “Reaganism” at the Grass Roots

                                      (McGirr)

                                     

Apr. 14                 Los Angeles County’s Agricultural World,

                                      Continued

                                      (Garcia)

 

Apr. 21                 What Happened in San Francisco

                                      (Hartman)

 

Apr. 28                 The Newest Californians Face Life

(Roley)

 

 

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