David J. Weber, Book Review Editor
Book Reviews
- Our Historic Desert: The Story of the Anza-Borrego Desert
- By Diana Elaine Lindsay. Reviewed by Alfred Runte
- A Venture in History. The Production, Publication, and Sale of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
- By Harry Clark. Reviewed by J. R. K. Kantor
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- By Evelyn I. Banning. Reviewed by Elizabeth C. MacPhail
- The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp
- Edited by John Modell. Reviewed by David Dufault
- Farewell To Manzanar
- By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. Reviewed by David Dufault
- Wines and Vines of California
- By Frona Eunice Wait. Reviewed by Rodney D. Strong
- The Pilgrim Church in California
- By Rev. Francis J. Weber. Reviewed by Sister Catherine McShane
- Yesterdays in Escondido
- By Frances B. Ryan. Reviewed by Eloise Perkins
- Politics of Land, Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on Land Uses in California
- By Robert C. Fellmeth. Reviewed by David A. Williams
- They Were Only Diggers: A Collection of Articles from California Newspapers, 1851-1866, On Indian and White Relations
- Edited by Robert F. Heizer. Reviewed by Richard N. Ellis
Book Notes
- Los Angeles and Its Environs in the Twentieth Century. A Bibliography of a Metropolis
- Los Angeles Metropolitan History Project
- Fire and Blood. A History of Mexico
- By T. R. Fehrenbach
- The Golden State’s Religious Pioneer
- By Rev. Francis J. Weber
- Bibliography of the Diegueño Indians
- By Ruth Farrell Almstedt
- A “Pile,” A Glance at the Wealth of the Monied Men of San Francisco and Sacramento City, An Accurate List of the Lawyers, Their Former Places of Residence, and Date of Their Arrival in San Francisco
At last paperback books on Mexican Americans, designed for use in university and high school level courses, are becoming plentiful enough that instructors can begin to pick and choose. Three recent examples are: Readings on La Raza: The Twentieth Century, edited by Matt S. Meier and Feliciano Rivera (New York: Hill and Wang, 1974), which contains a nice blending of short pieces by both contemporaries and later writers; An Awakened Minority: The Mexican Americans, edited by Manuel P. Servin (2nd ed.; Beverly Hills: Glencoe Press, 1974), which contains fewer but longer and more complete selections than the Meier and Rivera volume, and also touches on the pre-twentieth century; and The Changing Mexican-American, edited by Rudolph Gomez (Pruett Press [19731), whose general interdisciplinary approach seems best suited for introductory courses. DJW
