Railroaded

in collaboration with The Spatial History Project


For four books that show how critical issues of gender and race became to politics and social reform in the West, see:

Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997).

Ian Tyrrell, True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,1999).

Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2006).

Additionally, Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2001).