Battles Over Energy

Primary

"Extensive Flouring Mills." The California Farmer 15 (June 28, 1861).

"Haleís Patent Kerosene Burner." California Culturist 2 (August 1859).

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Bookman-Edmonston Engineering, Inc. The Impact of Power Plant Siting on Californiaís Water Resources: Association of California Water Agencies, July 1976.

California Energy Commission. Energy for Tomorrow: Challenges and Opportunities for California, 1981.

California. Hearings on the Nuclear Initiative. Sacramento, CA: The Committee on Resources, Land Use, and Energy, 1975-.

Ehrlich, Paul. The Population Bomb. New York: Ballantine, 1968.

Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. California Energy Trends and Choices. 3 vols. Sacramento: The Commission, 1977.

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Fowler, Frederick H. "Hydro-Electric Energy as a Conserver of Oil." Journal of Electricity, Power and Gas 34 (October 1, 1917).

Fowler, Frederick H. "Three Major Power Possibilities in California." Journal of Electricity, Power and Gas 41 (July 1, 1918).

Fowler, Frederick H. Hydroelectric Power Systems of California and Their Extensions into Oregon and Nevada. Washington, D.C.: United States Geological Survey, 1923.

Franks, Kenny A., and Paul F. Lambert. Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.

Great Western Power Electric Service. Great Western Power: A Short Description of the Great Western Power System. San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1912.

Higgins, Edwin. Californiaís Oil Industry. Los Angeles: Chamber of Mines and Oil, 1928.
Ise, John. The United States Oil Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926.

Jones, E.C. "The Development of Oil-Gas in California." Journal of Electricity, Power and Gas 30 (May 28, 1910).

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Lloyd, B. E. Lights and Shades of California. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Co., 1876.

Low, George P. "Gas and Power Engineering Development in Monterey County, California." Journal of Electricity, Power and Gas 14 (September 1904).

McPhee, John. Encounters with the Archdruid. New York: The Noonday Press, 1971.

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Misrach, Richard. Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990.

Molera, E.J. "On the Recent Progress in Electricity." Transactions of the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast 2 (February 1885).

OíShaughnessy, Michael M. "Construction Progress of the Hetch Hetchy Water Supply of San Francisco." Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California 18 (1922).

OíShaughnessy, Michael M. Hetch Hetchy: Its Origin and History. San Francisco, 1934.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Summary of Ecological Studies and Agreements between California Resources Agency and Pacific Gas and Electric Company for Thermal Power Plants. San Francisco: PG&E, 1969.

Paddock, R.G. "Liquid Fuel­Its Application, Past and Present." Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies 28 (April 1902).

Pesonen, David E. A Visit to the Atomic Park. Sebastopol, CA: D.E. Pesonen, 1962.

Powell, John J. The Golden State and Its Resources. San Francisco: Bacon and Co., 1874.

Redpath, Lionel V. Petroleum in California: A Concise and Reliable History of the Oil Industry of the State. Los Angeles: R.V. Redpath, 1900.

Resources Agency. Energy Dilemma: Californiaís 20-Year Power Plant Siting Plan. Sacramento: Department of Water Resources, June 1973.

Schorr, Robert. "The Briquetting Plant at Stockton, California." The Engineering and Mining Journal 78 (August 1904).

Sinclair, Upton. Oil! Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 rept.

Southern California Edison Co. A History of the Southern California Edison Company. Los Angeles, 1970.

Spaulding, William H. "Beginnings of the Great Western System: Story of Lake Almanor." Pacific Service Magazine 28, no. 4 (1931): 117-21.

Teller, Edward. Energy From Heaven and Earth. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co., 1979.

Udall, Steward. The Quiet Crisis. New York: Avon Books, 1963.

United States. Direct and Indirect Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of the Passage of the California Nuclear Power Plants Initiative. Washington, D.C.: The Federal Energy Administration, 1975.

Warne, William E. The California Water Project and Atomic Energy. Department of Water Resources, State of California, 1964.

Wood, Samuel E., and Alfred E. Heller. California Going, Going... Our Stateís Struggle to Remain Beautiful and Production. Sacramento: California Tomorrow, 1962.

Wright, Benjamin C. San Franciscoís Ocean Trade, Past and Future: A Story of the Deep Water Service of San Francisco, 1848-1911. San Francisco: A. Carlisle and Co., 1911.
 
 

Secondary

Anderson, Stephen, et al. California Energy: The Economic Factors. San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank, 1976.

Andreano, Ralph. "The Structure of the California Petroleum Industry, 1895-1911." Pacific Historical Review 39, no. 2 (May 1970): 171-92.

Armstrong, Ellis C., Michael Robinson, and Suellen Hoy, eds. History of Public Works in the United States, 1776-1976. Chicago: The Association, 1976.

Bain, Joe S. The Economics of the Pacific Coast Petroleum Industry. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.

Bartley, Ernest R. The Tidelands Oil Controversy: A Legal and Historical Analysis. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1953.

Bottles, Scott L. Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Bourne, Tom. "Is the Energy Shortage a Setback in the Smog Battle?" California Journal 11 (March 1980).

Brechin, Gray. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Brigham, Jay. Politics and Power: The Fight for Electricity in the West, 1902-1932. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Brown, Harrison. The Challenge of Manís Future. New York: The Viking Press, 1954.

Burmeister, Eugene. The Golden Empire: Kern County, California. Beverly Hills: Autograph Press, 1977.

Center for Energy Studies. Direct and Indirect Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of the Passage of the California Nuclear Safeguards Initiative. Austin: University of Texas, April 1976.

Cicin-Sain, Biliana, and Robert W. Knecht. "Federalism Under Stress: The Case of Offshore Oil and California." Perspectives on Federalism, Institute of Governmental Studies (1987).

Clark, David L. The Aerospace Industry as the Primary Factor in the Industrial Development of Southern California. Los Angeles: Community Analysis Bureau, 1976.

Coleman, Charles M. P.G.&E. of California: The Centennial Story of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 1852-1952. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1952.

Davis, Mike. "Dead West: Ecocide in Marlboro Country." New Left Review (1994).

Dennis, Harry. Water and Power: The Peripheral Canal and Its Alternatives. San Francisco: Friends of the Earth, 1981.

Deverell, William. Railroad Crossings Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Easton, Robert. Black Tide: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Its Consequences. New York: Delacorte Press, 1972.

Elliott, Arlene. "The Rise of Aeronautics in California, 1849-1940." Southern California Quarterly (1970).

Engelbert, E.A., and A.F. Scheuring, eds. Competition for California Water. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Epstein, Barbara. Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Evans, Brock. "Sierra Club Involvement in Nuclear Power: An Evolution of Awareness." Oregon Law Review 54 (1975): 607-21.

Ford, Daniel. Meltdown: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

Fradkin, Philip. A River No More: The Colorado River and the West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Freudenburg, William R., and Eugene A. Rosa, eds. Public Reaction to Nuclear Power: Are There Critical Masses? Boulder: Westview Press, 1984.

Freudenburg, William R., and Robert Gramling. Oil in Troubled Waters: Perception, Politics, and the Battle over Offshore Drilling. Albany: State University of New York, 1994.

Gilbert, Chester G., and Joseph E. Pogue. Americaís Power Resources: The Economic Significance of Coal, Oil, and Water-Power. New York: Century, 1921.

Gofman, John, and Arthur Tamplin. Poisoned Power: The Case Against Nuclear Power Plants. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1971.

Goldsmith, Martin. Siting Nuclear Power Plants in California: The Near Term Alternatives. Pasadena, CA: Environmental Quality Laboratory, 1973.

Hanson, Warren D. Water and Power: A History of the Municipal Water Department and Hetch Hetchy System. San Francisco: City and County of San Francisco, 1994.

Hay, Duncan. Hydroelectric Development in the United States, 1880-1940. Washington, D.C.: Task Force on Cultural Resource Management, 1991.

Hayden, Tom. The American Future: New Visions Beyond Old Frontiers. Boston: South End Press, 1980.

Hoffman, Abraham. Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.

Holdren, John, and Philip Herrera. Energy: A Crisis in Power. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1971.

Hughes, Thomas. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

Hunt, Rockwell D. Oxcart to Airplane. Los Angeles, Powell, 1922.

Hutchinson, W.H. California: The Golden Shore by the Sundown Sea. 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: Star Publishing Company, 1988.

Hutchinson, W.H. Oil, Land and Politics: The California Career of Thomas R. Bard. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.

Jackson, Donald C. Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Johansson, Thomas B., et al. Renewable Energy: Sources for Fuels and Electricity. Washington D.C.: Earth Island Press, 1992.

Johnson, Arthur M. "California and the National Oil Industry." Pacific Historical Review 39, no. 2 (May 1970): 155-70.

Kotkin, Joel. "New Foes of Nuclear Power: The Farmers." Outside (May 1978).

Lewis, Richard S. The Nuclear-Power Rebellion: Citizens vs. the Atomic Industrial Establishment. New York: The Viking Press, 1972.

Lillard, Richard G. Eden in Jeopardy Manís Prodigal Meddling with His Environment: The Southern California Experience. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

Lotchin, Roger. "The Metropolitan-Military Complex in Comparative Perspective: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, 1919-1941." Journal of the West 18 (1979): 19-30.

Lotchin, Roger. Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Marx, Wesley. "Offshore Oil: A California Battleground." California Journal 14 (September 1983).

Mazuzan, George T., and J. Samuel Walker. Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-1962. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Melosi, Martin V. Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985.

Molotch, Harvey. "Oil in Santa Barbara and Power in America." Sociological Inquiry 40 (Winter 1970): 133-44.

Mosier, Dan L. California Coal Towns, Coaling Stations and Landings. San Leandro, CA: Mines Road Books, 1978.

Mosier, Dan L. Harrisville and the Livermore Coal Mines. San Leandro, CA: Mine Road Books, 1978.

Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934.

Nash, A.E. Keir, Dean E. Mann, and Phil G. Olsen. Oil Pollution and the Public Interest: A Study of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, 1972.

Nash, Gerald D. "Oil in the West: Reflections on the Historiography of an Unexplored Field." Pacific Historical Review 39, no. 2 (May 1970): 193-204.

Novick, Sheldon. The Electric War, The Fight over Nuclear Power. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1976.

Nye, David E. "Electrifying the West, 1880-1940." In The American West As Seen By Europeans and Americans, edited by Rob Kroes, 182-202. Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1989.

Olsen, McKinley C. Unacceptable Risk: The Nuclear Power Controversy. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.

Rae, John B. Climb to Greatness: The American Aircraft Industry, 1920-1960. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1968.

Rand Corporation. Californiaís Electricity Quandary. 3 vols. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 1972.

Reynolds, W.C., ed. The California Nuclear Initiative: Analysis and Discussion of the Issues. Stanford: Institute for Energy Studies, Stanford University, April 1976.

Rubin, David M., and David P. Sachs. Mass Media and the Environment: Water Resources, Land Use, and Atomic Energy in California. New York: Praeger, 1973.

Rubin, Hal. "Guide to Nuclear Power in California." California Journal (1979).

Salzman, Ed, ed. California Environment and Energy: Text and Readings on Contemporary Issues. Sacramento: California Journal Press, 1980.

Schrepfer, Susan. "The Nuclear Crucible: Diablo Canyon and the Transformation of the Sierra Club." California History 71 (Summer 1992): 212-37.

Scott, Allen. Technopolis: High Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.

Smeloff, Ed, and Peter Asmus. Reinventing Electric Utilities: Competition, Citizen Action, and Clean Power. Washington, D.C.: Earth Island Press, 1997.

Solnit, Rebecca. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Teisch, Jessica. "The Drowning of Big Meadows: Nature, White Coal, and Corporate Power in California, 1880-1920." Masters thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1997.

Tribe, Laurence H. "California Declines the Nuclear Gamble: Is Such a State Choice Preempted?" Ecology Law Quarterly 7 (1979): 679-729.

Tygiel, Jules. The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Valen, Nelson S. Van. "A Neglected Aspect of the Owens River Aqueduct Story: The Inception of the Los Angeles Municipal Electric System." Southern California Quarterly (1977).

Vernon, Raymond, ed. The Oil Crisis. New York: Norton, 1976.

Viehe, Fred W. "Black Gold Suburbs: The Influence of the Extractive Industry on the Suburbanization of Los Angeles, 1890-1930." Journal of Urban History 8, no. 1 (November 1981): 3-26.

Walker, Samuel J. "Reactor at the Fault: The Bodega Bay Nuclear Plant Controversy, 1958-1964­A Case Study in the Politics of Technology." Pacific Historical Review 59 (1990): 323-48.

Walton, John. Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California. Berkeley: University of California, 1992.

Wellock, Thomas. "The Battle for Bodega Bay: The Sierra Club and Nuclear Power, 1958-64." California History 71 (Summer 1992): 192-211, 289-91.

White, Gerald T. "Californiaís Other Mineral." Pacific Historical Review 39, no. 2 (May 1970): 135-54.

White, Gerald T. Formative Years in the Far West: A History of the Standard Oil Company of California and Predecessors through 1919. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1962.

White, Gerald T. Scientists in Conflict: The Beginnings of the Oil Industry in California. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1968.

Williams, James C. Energy and the Making of Modern California. Edited by Jeffrey K. Stine and William McGucken, Technology and the Environment. Akron, OH: The University of Akron Press, 1997.

Williamson, Harold. The American Petroleum Industry. 2 vols. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1959 & 1963.

Woychik, Eric Charles. "Californiaís Nuclear Disposal Law Confronts the Nuclear Waste Management Dilemma: State Power to Regulate Reactors." Environmental Law 14 (1984): 359-463.