Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to Nixon

Bibliography for Manna From Hell Path

The essays in this Path are based on a range of scholarship and primary research into the petroleum industry, urban development, and the military history of Los Angeles' role in the global wars of the 20th century--in which oil figured prominently as the ultimate prize.

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Part I: Petroleum: Global Industry and Urban Development

[Paragraph bibliographic discussion about Petroleum history]

Ansell, Martin R. (1998) Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum in California and Mexico. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Atl, Dr. [Gerardo Murillo] ([1921] 1980) Las Artes Populares en México Instituto Nacional Indigenista.

Brown, Jonathan C. (1993) Oil and Revolution in Mexico Berkeley: University of California Press.

Burroughs, Edgar Rice ([1912] 2003) A Princess of Mars. New York: Modern Library.

Culver, Lawrence. The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America, Oxford University Press: USA, 2010.

Davis, Margaret Leslie. (2001) Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Da Beer, Gabriella (1966) José Vasconcelos and His World. New York: Las Américas.

Deverell, William.  Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past, University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004

Hall, Linda B. (1981) Álvaro Obregón: Power and Revolution in Mexico, 1911-1920 (College Station: Texas A & M University Press.

Hall, Linda B. (1995) Oil, Banks, and Politics: The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917-1924. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Hart, John Mason. (1987) The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Hart, John Mason. (2002) Empire and Revolution: Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Nancy Quam-Wickham, “‘Cities Sacrificed on the Altar of Oil’: Popular Opposition to Oil Development in 1920s Los Angeles,” Environmental History (1998) 3:2

Phoebe Kropp, 
California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place, University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2006.

Sinclair, Upton Oil! [1927] 1997 Berkeley: University of California Press.

Tucker, John I. (1970) “Tarzan was Born in Chicago,” Chicago History 1:1, pp. 18-31.

Tygiel, Jules. (1994) The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties. New York: Oxford University Press.

Viehe, Fred W.  “Black Gold Suburbs: The Influence of the Extractive Industry on the Suburbanization of Los Angeles, 1890-1930,” Journal of Urban History (1981) 8:3.

Yergin, Daniel. (1991) The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. New York: Touchstone.

Militarism and World Wars

[Paragraph bibliographic discussion of military history]

Adams, Graham. (1966) Age of Industrial Violence, 1910-1915: The Activities and Findings of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations New York: Columbia University Press.

Aguilar Camín, Hector (1986) La frontera nómada: Sonora y la Revolución Mexicana 5th edn. México City: Siglo XXI.

Albright , Horace M. and Marian Albright Schenck, (1999) Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

Anderson, Rodney D. (1997) “Industrial Labor: 1876-1910,” in Michael S. Werner, Encyclopedia of Mexico, 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.

Bates, J. Leonard (1955) “The Teapot Dome Scandal and the Election of 1924,” American Historical Review 60:2 (January): 303-322.

Bennett George. (1965) “Settlers in Politics,” in Harlow and Chilver (1965): 265-332.

Bennett, George. (1971) “Tribalism in Politics,” in Gulliver (1971): ***-***

Bradbury Ray. (2003) “Introduction” to A Princess of Mars in Burroughs ([1912] 2003): xiii-xvi.

Brady, Clark A. (1996) The Burroughs Cyclopaedia (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company

Coatsworth, John. (1974) “Railroads, Landholding, and Agrarian Protest in Porfirian Mexico.” Hispanic American Historical Review 54: pp. 48-72.

Colmenares, Francisco. (1982) Petroleo y lucha de clases in Mexico, 1864-1982 (México, D.F.: Ediciones El Caballito.

Creel, George (1926) The People Next Door: An Interpretive History of Mexico and the Mexicans (New York: The John Day Company,

Davis, Mike (2001) “Sunshine and the Open Shop: Ford and Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles,’ in Sitton and Deverell (2001: 96-122).

Delf, George. (1961) Jomo Kenyatta: Towards Truth about “The Light of Kenya” Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

Douglas, Ann (1995) Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Dray, Philip (2002). At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. New York: Random House.


Dower, John. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1986.

Dower, John. Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010.

Erie, Steven. (2004) Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Ethington, Philip J. (2008) “Global Spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s,” in Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse, eds, The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life. Princeton University Press. Pp. 58-98.

Gamio, Manuel. (2002) El inmigrante mexicano: la historia de su vida. Entrevistas completas, 1926-1927. Edited by Devra Weber, Roberto Melville, Juan Vicente Palerm, compiladores. (Mexico, D.F.)

Gerstle, Gary (2002) American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books.

Getty, J. Paul. (1963) My Life and Fortunes. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.


Grayling, A.C. Among The Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan. New York, NY: Walker Publishing Company, Inc., 2006.

Guerra, François-Xavier. (1988) México: Del antiguo regimen a la revolución. 2 vols. Mexico, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Gulliver, P.H., ed (1971). Tradition and Transition in East Africa: Studies of the Tribal Element in the Modern Era Berkeley: University of California Press

Haddox, John H. (1967) Vasconcelos of Mexico: Philosopher and Prophet Austin: University of Texas Press.

Harlow, Vincent and E. M. Chilver, Eds. (1965) History of East Africa Oxford: Clarendon Press.


Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

Holson, Laura M. (2001) “Rosie the Riveter in a New Generation: Military Industry Regains Self-Respect.” New York Times 20 October.

Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. ([1944] 1972) Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. John Cumming. New York: Continuum.

Katz, Friedrich. (1981) The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution. (The University of Chicago Press.

Katz, Friedrich. (1998) The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Stanford: Stanford University Press.


Knell, Herman. To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in World War II. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press., 2003.

Knight, Alan. (1986) The Mexican Revolution 2 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

La Botz, Dan. (1991) Edward L. Doheny: Petroleum, Power, and Politics in the United States and Mexico. New York : Praeger.

Libcap, Gary D. (1984) “The Political Allocation of Mineral Rights: A Re-­Evaluation of Teapot,” Journal of Economic History 44:2 (June): 381-91, and “Correction: The Political Allocation of Mineral Rights: A Re-Evaluation of Teapot,” Journal of Economic History 44:4 (December): 1101.

Linder, Peter Shuey. (1983) “Every Region for Itself: The Manuel Peláez Movement, 1914-1923.” M.A. Thesis, University of New Mexico.


Linenthal, Edward T., and Tom Engelhardt, ed. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC., 1996.

Lonnquist, John Clayton. (1996) “The Face of Atlas: General Bernard Schriever and the Development of the Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, 1953-1960.” PhD Dissertation: Duke University.

Lord, M.G. (2005) Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science New York, Walker and Co.

Markusen, Ann, Peter Hall, Scott Campbell, and Sabina Deitrick (1991) The Rise of the Gunbelt: the Military Remapping of Industrial America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Martínez Peñaloza, Porfirio (1980) Tres notas sobre el arte popular en México (México: Miguel Ángel Porrúa.

Menéndez, Gabriel Antonio. (1958) Doheny El Cruel: Episodios de la sangrenta lucha por el petróleo mexicano. México City: Bolsa Mexicana del Libro.

Miller, Russell. (1985) The House of Getty. London: Michael Joseph.

Morrison, Wilbur H. (1991) Donald W. Douglas: A Heart With Wings. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press

Newfield, Michael. (1995) The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era N.Y. Free Press.

Noggle, Burl (1957) “The Origins of the Teapot Dome Investigations,” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 44:2 (September): 237-266.

Orozco, Jose Clemente (1945) Autobiografia. México: Ediciones Occidente.

Piszkiewicz, Dennis. (1998) Wernher Von Braun: The Man Who Sold The Moon Westport, CT: Praeger.

Platt, Anthony, and O’Leary, Cecilia (2005) Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, from Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial. New York: Paradigm Publishers.

Pozas Horcasitas, Ricardo. (1993) El Triunvirato Sonorense Mexico City: Martin Casillas.

Prakash, Gyan. (1995) After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Raat, Dirk. (1981) Revoltosos: Mexico’s Rebels in the United States, 1903-1923. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

Ramo, Simon. (1988) The Business of Science: Winning and Losing in the High-Tech Age, New York: Hill and Wang.

Reed, John. ([1916] 1995) Insurgent Mexico, in The Collected Works of John Reed (New Yrok: Modern Library.

Ríos-Bustamante, Antonio. (1991) Los Ángeles, pueblo y region, 1781-1850. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Anthropología e Historia.

Scott, Allen J. and Doreen J. Mattingly (1989) “The Aircraft and Parts Industry in Southern California: Continuity and Change from The Inter-War Years to the 1990s.” Economic Geography 65:1 (January): 48-71.


Sherwin, Martin. A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Simpson, Christopher (1988) Blowback: the American Recruitment of Nazis and its Disastrous Effect on the Cold War N.Y: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.


Stephen I. Schwartz, ed, (1998) Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.

Stratton, David H. (1974) “Two Western Senators and Teapot Dome: Thomas J. Walsh and Albert B. Fall,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 65 (April): 57-65.

Stratton, David H. (1998) Tempest over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Stuhlinger, Ernst and Frederick I. Ordway III, (1994) Wernher von Braun: Crusader for Space (Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company.

Trow, Clifford Wayne “Senator Albert B. Fall and Mexican Affairs: 1912-1921” (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado, 1966).

Trow, Clifford Wayne (1971) “Woodrow Wilson and the Mexican Interventionist Movement of 1919,” Journal of American History, 58:1 (June): 46-72.

​Vasconcelos, 
José ([1925] 1997) The Cosmic Race: A Bilingual Edition trans and annotated by Didier T. Jaén Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Zeleza, Tiyambe (1989) “The establishment of colonial rule, 1905-1920,” in Ocheng’ (1989): 35-70.
 

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