SAN JOSE & SANTA CLARA VALLEY
Selected Bibliography
Adkins, Jan Batiste. African-Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County (Arcadia Press, 2019).
Arbuckle, Clyde. History of San Jose (San Jose, CA: South and McKay, 1986).
Barrett, Dick, ed. A Century of Service: San Jose’s 100-Year-Old Business Firms, Organizations and Institutions (San Jose, CA: San Jose Bicentennial Commission, 1977).
Beilharz, Edwin A. and Donald O. DeMers Jr. San Jose: California’s First City (Tulsa, OK: Continental Heritage Press, 1980).
Chapman, Robin. California Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2013).
Chapman, Robin. Historic Bay Area Visionaries (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2018).
Clark, Shannon E. The Alameda: The Beautiful Way (San Jose, CA: Alameda Business Association, 2006).
Couchman, Robert. The Sunsweet Story (San Jose, CA: Sunsweet Growers, Inc., 1967).
David, Heather M. Mid-Century By the Bay: A Celebration of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 1960s [architecture]. (Santa Clara: CalMod Books, 2010).
Downtown San Jose Historic District Design Guidelines: Approved by the San Jose City Council, November 4, 2003.
Douglas, Jack. Historical Footnotes of Santa Clara Valley (San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical Museum Association, 1993).
Douglas, Jack. Historical Highlights of Santa Clara Valley (San Jose, CA: History San Jose, 2005).
Espinda, George. Cottages, Flats, Buildings and Bungalows: 102 Designs from Wolfe and McKenzie [San Jose], 1907. (San Jose, CA: Bay and Valley Pub., 2004).
Farrell, Harry. Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town (New York: St. Martins Press, 1992).
Fox, Frances L. San Jose’s Luis Maria Peralta and His Adobe (San Jose, CA: Smith-McKay, 1975).
Giarratana, Elizabeth. Old Willow Glen: A Photographic Sketchbook (Palo Alto, CA: Consolidated Pub., 1978).
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Growing Orbit: The Story of FMC Corporation (Chicago: FMC, 1992).
Hall, Frederic. The History of San Jose and Surroundings, with Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers (San Francisco: Bancroft and Pub., 1871).
Jacobson, Yvonne. Passing Farms, Enduring Values: California’s Santa Clara Valley (Los Altos, CA: De Anza College, 1984).
Johnson, Kenneth M. The New Almaden Quicksilver Mine (Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1963).
Kenney, Martin, ed. Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).
Loomis, Patricia. A Walk Through the Past: San Jose’s Oak Hill Memorial Park (San Jose, CA: Argonauts Historical Society of San Jose, 1998).
Loomis, Patricia. Signposts (San Jose: San Jose Historical Museum Association) Volumes 1 (1982) and 2 (1985).
Lukes, Timothy J. and Gary Y Okihiro. Japanese Legacy: Farming and Community Life in California’s Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 1985).
Matthews, Glenna. Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003).
McKay, Leonard and Nestor Wahlberg. A Postcard History of San Jose (San Jose: Smith and McKay, 1992).
Mellon, Dolores. Catalyst for Change: A History of Civic Plazas in San Jose (San Jose, CA: Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Jose, 2006).
Miller, Kathleen. San Jose: A City with a Past (San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical Museum Association, 1988).
Morgan, Jane. Electronics in the West: The First Fifty Years (Palo Alto: National Press Books, 1967).
National Canners Association. Canners Directory, 1950 (Washington, DC: NCA, 1950).
O’Mara, Margaret. Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton University Press, 2004).
Oxford, June. The Capital that Wouldn’t Stay Put (Fairfield, CA: James Stevenson, 1995).
History San Jose Research Library & Archives, updated June 2019 Pearce, Ralph M., and Curt Fukuda. San Jose Japantown: A Journey (San Jose: Japanese American Museum, 2014).
Peyton, Wes. San Jose: A Personal View (San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical Museum Association, 1989).
Pitti, Steve. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003). From his 199 Stanford dissertation
Preservation Action Council of San Jose. San Jose Modernism: Historic Context Statement (San Jose: PAC-San Jose, 2009).
Ruffin, Herbert G. II. Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).
Saint James Park Master Plan Update (San Jose, CA: San Jose Redevelopment Agency, 2002).
San Jose Japantown Historic Context and Reconnaissance Study (San Jose, CA: Carey & Company Architects, 2004).
Sanders, Ian L., and Graeme Bartram. Cyril Frank Elwell: Pioneer of American and European Wireless Communications, Talking Pictures and Founder of C. F. Elwell, Limited .. (Morgan Hill, CA: Castle Ridge Press, 2013).
Sawyer, Eugene T. History of Santa Clara County, California, with Biographical Sketches (Los Angeles: Historical Record Co., 1922).
Solari, Agnes and Margaret Zaro. San Jose’s St. Joseph’s: The Church That Watched a Pueblo Grow Into a City (San Jose, 1975).
Stanley, Tim. The Last of the Prune Pickers: A Pre-Silicon Valley Story. (Irvine: 2 Timothy Publishing, 2009).
Sunshine, Fruit, and Flowers: Santa Clara County and its Resources: Historical, Descriptive, Statistical (San Jose, CA: San Jose Mercury, 1896; rep. San Jose Historical Museum Association, 1986).
Thompson and West. Historical Atlas Map of Santa Clara County, 1876 (rep. San Jose, Smith and McKay, 1973).
Tsu, Cecelia. Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) From her 2006 Stanford dissertation: “Grown in the ‘Garden of the World’: Race, Gender, and Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley, 1880-1940”).
Van Laan, Krista. Frank Delos Wolfe: California Prairie Architecture (San Jose: Archives & Architecture LLC, 2014). [San Jose architectural firm]
History San Jose Research Library & Archives, updated June 2019 Van Laan, Krista. Wolfe & Higgins:Master Architects of the Spanish Revival (San Jose: Archives & Architecture LLC, 2017). [San Jose architectural firm]
Villarreal, Arturo. Jose Manuel Gonzales: Apache Alcade/Mayor of San Jose, California (Chusma House, 2018).
Willow Glen: Ten Walking Loops (San Jose, CA: Willow Glen Neighborhood Association / Preservation Action Council of San Jose, 2007).
Winslow, Ward. The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance (Palo Alto, CA: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association, 1995).
Winther, Oscar Osburn. The Story of San Jose, 1777-1869: California's First Pueblo (San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1935).
Yu, Connie Young. Chinatown San Jose, USA (San Jose, CA: History San Jose, 2001).
Zaniello, Tom. California’s Lamson Murder Mystery: The Depression-Era Case that Divided Santa Clara County (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2016).
Zavella, Patricia. Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987).
CALIFORNIA and the WEST
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Sinkewicz, ed. Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 (University of Santa Clara, and Heydey Books, 2001).
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Sinkewicz, ed. Testimonios: Early California Through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848. (Berkeley: Heydey Books, 2006).
Cronon, William, George Miles and Jay Gitlin, ed. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992).
Daniel, Cletus E. Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981). . Gutierrez, Ramon A. and Richard J. Orsi, eds. “Introduction,” in Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998).
Houston, James D. Californians: Searching for the Golden State (Santa Cruz, CA: Otter B. Books, 1992).
Jones, Oakah L., Jr. Los Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern Frontier of New Spain (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).
Limerick, Patricia, Clyde A. Milner and Charles Rankin, ed. (preface) Trails: Toward a New Western History (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1991)
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Lotchin, Roger. Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare. (University of Illinois Press, 2002).
Monroy, Douglas. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990)
Nash, Gerald. The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 1990).
Pitt, Leonard. The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1848-1890 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
Robinson, W.W. Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948)
Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), and later volumes in the series: Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era (1985), Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s (1990), Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (1996); The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (1997); Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-50 (2002); Golden Dreams: California In An Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (2009); and Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 (2004)
Stegner, Wallace. The American West as Living Space (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997)
Vaught, David. Cultivating California: Growers, Speciality Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920 (Baltimore, MY: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
West, Elliott. “A Longer, Grimmer, But More Interesting Story,” in Trails: Toward a New Western History (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1991): 103-111. Originally published in Montana The Magazine of Western History 40 (Summer 1990).
White, Richard. It’s Your Misfortune But None of My Own: A New History of the American West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991).
Worster, Donald, “Beyond the Agrarian Myth,” in Trails: Toward a New Western History (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1991): 3-25.
SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, and MEMOIRS
Allen, Thomas L. Growing Up in the Santa Clara Valley: From Picking Prunes to Submarine Service (2013 self-published).
Arbuckle, Helen. San Jose’s Women: Colonial Days to the 1970s (San Jose: Arbuckle, 2002)
History San Jose Research Library & Archives, updated June 2019 Graves, Constance Daniels. Goerge W. Bellomy: Pioneer of Oregon and California (Sanford, FL: Bellomy House, 2011).
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