Antique Mission Bells

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A complete works cited list by exhibit topic is below.

 

  • Beebe, Rose Marie and Senkewicz, Robert M. Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 2015.
  • Byers, S.H.M. The Bells of Capistrano and Other Romances of the Spanish Days in California. Los Angeles: The Grafton Publishing Corporation, 1916.
  • Corbin, Alain. Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside. New York City: Columbia University Press, 1998.
  • de Portola, Gaspar. Diary of Gaspar de Portola during the California Expedition of 1769. Book on Demand; First Edition, 1909.
  • Galindo, David Rex. To Sin No More: Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683–1830. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.
  • Geiger, Maynard, and Clement W. Meighan. As the Padres Saw Them: California Indian Life and Customs as Reported by the Franciscan Missionaries, 1813–1815. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 1976.
  • Geiger, Maynard J. Franciscan Missionaries in Hispanic California, 1769-1848: A Biographical Dictionary. Huntington Library, 1969.
  • Geiger, Maynard J. Life and Times of Fray Junípero Serra, V1-2. Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011. 
  • Geiger, Maynard J. Palou’s Life of Fray Junípero Serra. Academy of American Franciscan History, 1955.
  • Hackel, Steven W. Junípero Serra: California’s Founding Father. New York: Hill & Wang, 2013. 
  • Hackel, Steven W., ed. The Worlds of Junípero Serra: Historical Contexts and Cultural Representations. University of California Press, 2018.
  • Kenneally, Finbar. Writings of Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, Vol. I and II. Academy of American Franciscan History, 1965.
  • Mann, Kristin Dutcher. The Power of Song: Music and Dance in the Mission Communities of Northern New Spain, 1590-1810. Stanford: University of Stanford Press, 2010.
  • Saunders, Charles Francis Capistrano Nights. Cabin John, MD: Wildside Press, 2007. 
  • Shinn, Charles Howard, “Mission Bells,” in Overland Monthly and Out West magazine, vol. 19, issue 109 (Jan. 1892): pp. 1-16.
  • Adams, Eleanor B. and Chavez, Fray Angelico. Translated and annotated. The Missions of New Mexico, 1776: A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, with Other Contemporary Documents. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1956.
  • Beechey, Frederick William. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Burns, Jeffrey M. eds. and Johnson, Timothy J. Franciscans and American Indians in Pan-Borderlands Perspective: Adaptation, Negotiation, and Resistance. Oceanside CA: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2018.
  • Castillo, Elias. Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions. Fresno, CA: Craven Street Books, 2015.
  • Costo, Rupert and Costo, Jeanette H. The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. Indian Historian Press, 1987.
  • Cothran, Boyd, and Martin Rizzo. "The Many Lives of Justiniano Roxas: The Centenarian Fantasy in American History and Memory," in Native American and Indigenous Studies vol. 5, issue 1 (2018): pp. 168-204.
  • de La Pérouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup and Margolin, Malcolm. Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786: the Journals of Jean Francois de la Pérouse. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1995.
  • Haas, Lisbeth. Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014.
  • Jackson, Robert H. and Castillo, Edward. Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. 
  • Miranda, Deborah A. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2012.
  • Mora-Torres, Gregorio. Californio Voices: The Oral Memoirs of José María Amador and Lorenzo Asisara. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2012.
  • Panich, Lee M. Narratives of Persistence: Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California. Archaeology and Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. 
  • Rizzo-Martinez, Martin. We are not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Resistance, and Reconstitution in 19th Century California. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 
  • Sandos, James A. Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Schneider, Tsim, “Placing Refuge and the Archaeology of Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California,” in American Antiquity vol. 80, issue 4 (October 2015): pp. 695–713.
  • Welizarowicz, Grzegorz, "California Mission Bells: Listening against the 'Fantasy Heritage,'" in Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, vol. 13 (2016): pp. 239-259. 
  • Challenging Colonialism podcast. Episode 1: "Instruments of Colonization." https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/instruments-of-colonization/id1571419094  
    Forbes, A.S.C. California Missions and Landmarks: El Camino Real. Los Angeles: Self Published, 1915.     
  • Harte, Bret. Complete Poetical Works. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1902.
  • Lorimer, Michelle M. Resurrecting the Past: The California Mission Myth. Temecula: Great Oak Press, 2016. 
  • Kropp, Phoebe S. California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 
  • Kurillo, Max and Tuttle, Erline. A Guide to the Historic Bells of ASC Forbes with Additional Information on the California Bell Company. Whittier, CA.: Sir Speedy, 2004.
  • Kurillo, Max and Tuttle, Erline. California's El Camino Real and Its Historic Bells. El Cajon: Sunbelt Cultural Heritage Books, 2000.
  • DeLyser, Dydia. Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
  • Deverell,  William F. Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past. University of California Press, 2004.
  • Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth. California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory and the Politics of Heritage. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
  • Markwyn, Abigail. Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
  • Sánchez, Joseph P. El Camino Real de California: From Ancient Pathways to Modern Byways. University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
  • Starr, Kevin. Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (Americans and the California Dream). Oxford University Press, 1986.
  • “The Bells of El Camino,” online presentation, Chatsworth Historical Society. https://www.slideshare.net/ChatsworthHistory/the-bells-of-el-camino-real 
  • Beebe, Rose Marie, and Senkewicz, Robert M., eds. Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 
  • Beebe, Rose Marie, and Senkewicz, Robert M., eds. Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 
  • Casas, Maria Raquel. Married To A Daughter Of The Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-80. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2009. 
  • Osio, Antonio Maria. History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
  • Pool, Bob. “Saga of the Bells Comes Full Circle,” Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2006. https://www.californiabell.com/latimescentennial/
  • Powell, Ronald G. and Whaley, Derek R. eds. The Tragedy of Martina Castro. Zayante Publishing, 2020.
  • Reader, Phil. (History Museum of Santa Cruz County). Santa Cruz County History Journal 3: Special Branciforte Edition. Santa Cruz County Historical Trust, 1997.
  • “California Mission Bells mark the spots of the ‘King’s Highway,’” Jonathan Farrell, March 9, 2013, Digital Journal. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/345281
  • “El Camino Real Bell, History San Jose.”  https://www.historysanjose.org/wp/el-camino-real-bell
  • “The Story Behind Those Historic Bell Markers on the 101 Freeway,” Conejo Valley Guide, March 4, 2020. https://www.conejovalleyguide.com/welcome/the-story-behind-those-historic-el-camino-real-bell-markers.html
  • Website of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs: https://www.gfwc.org/ 
  • Bauer, William J. California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History. University of Seattle: Washington Press, 2016.
  • Connolly, Darin. "Take Down the Mission Bell,” City on a Hill Press, editorial column, October 12, 2018. https://www.cityonahillpress.com/2018/10/12/take-down-the-mission-bell/
  • Ramirez, Renya K., and Lopez, Valentin. "Valentin Lopez, Healing, and Decolonization: Contesting Mission Bells, El Camino Real, and California Governor Newsom." in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture vol. 2, issue 3 (2020): pp. 91-98.
  • Website of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band: http://amahmutsun.org/
  • Campaign to protect Juristac: Sacred Grounds of the Amah Mutsun: http://www.protectjuristac.org/ 

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