Abraham Hoffman

Biographic Data

ID3765041
NAMEAbraham Hoffman
GIVEN NAMESAbraham
FAMILY NAMEHoffman
SIGNATUREHOFFMAN A
AFFILIATIONSLos Angeles Valley College
ORCID0000-0001-7355-9823
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism

    Open AccessAbraham HoffmanARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism Get access The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism. By Traci Brynne Voyles. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xviii, 361 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Paper, $30.00.) Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…

  • Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights

    Open AccessAbraham HoffmanARTICLEJournal of American History2022Cited by: 1

    This important book explores the transborder history of Mexican-U.S. relations in the early twentieth century. More specifically, Gabriela González examines the connections between Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, focusing on activists living in those cities during the Mexican Revolution and through the 1930s. Mexicans in this period, and Mexican Americans (the latter referred to as “Mexican-origin” in the book…

  • Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

    Abraham HoffmanARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Shari Rabin offers an unusual path to examine nineteenth-century Jewish migration to the United States. Factors involving the difficult decision to leave home could include religious persecution, economic hardship, and a desire for adventure. Rabin stresses the idea of mobility—the opportunity to leave Europe and go to a new land where old-country restrictions did not apply. This sense of mobility allowed Jews to do more than settle along the U.S…

  • Heavy Ground: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster. By Norris Hundley Jr. and Donald C. Jackson

    Abraham HoffmanARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2017

    On March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam in the Santa Clara River Valley north of Los Angeles collapsed with 12 billion gallons of water creating a tsunami of death and destruction on its way to the Pacific Ocean. The flood killed an estimated 400-450 people and devastated the landscape. Except for the pioneering work of Charles Outland, few historians have conducted in-depth research into the causes and consequences of this tragedy. In recent year…

  • The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl

    Abraham HoffmanARTICLEJournal of American History2017Cited by: 1

    California's agricultural history encompasses complex issues involving growers and farmers and their organizations pitted against laborers and labor unions; exploitation of documented and undocumented braceros; overt racism; and water rights defenders versus environmental advocates. Sarah D. Wald examines those themes by evaluating the arguments in writings examining them. She discusses famous (and equally notorious or obscure) authors from the G…

  • Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush. By Mark Kanazawa

    Abraham HoffmanARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2016

    Mark Kanazawa wears at least three hats in his assessment of the relationship of mining and water in gold rush California. Narrative historians’ eyes will likely glance over Kanazawa’s introduction and first chapter dealing with economic theory, but succeeding chapters will be eye-openers, as the author digs into the complexities of what it meant to be involved in the gold rush. Prospecting evolved from the familiar individual prospector panning …

  • César Chávez, the Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers' Struggle for Social Justice

    Abraham Hoffman, Marco G ProutyARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2007

    Journal Article César Chávez, the Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers' Struggle for Social Justice Get access César Chávez, the Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers' Struggle for Social Justice. By Prouty Marco G.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. xiii + 185 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…

  • My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965

    Abraham Hoffman, Becky M Nicolaides et al.ARTICLEThe History Teacher2003

  • Flowing through Time: A History of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (review)

    Abraham HoffmanARTICLETechnology and Culture2000

  • Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932

    Abraham Hoffman, Juan Ramón Carbó García et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900–1932. By Juan R. García. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xii, 292 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8165-1560-3.) Get access Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 269, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567495 Published: 01 June 1999

  • One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland

    Abraham Hoffman, Gayle B Montgomery et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1999

    Journal Article One Step front the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland Get access One Step front the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland. By Montgomery Gayle B. Johnson James W. Manolis Paul G.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiii + 361 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by th…

  • Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest

    Abraham HoffmanREVIEWJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. By Laura Pulido. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xxiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8165-1424-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-81651605-7.) Get access Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue…

  • A Spy in Their Midst: The World War II Struggle of a Japanese-American Hero. The Story of Richard Sakakida

    Abraham Hoffman, Wayne Kiyosaki et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1997

    Journal Article A Spy in Their Midst: The World War II Struggle of a Japanese-American Hero. The Story of Richard Sakakida Get access A Spy in Their Midst: The World War II Struggle of a Japanese-American Hero. The Story of Richard Sakakida. By Kiyosaki Wayne. (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1995. 199 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $22.95.) Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: O…

  • The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal during the Roaring Twenties

    Abraham Hoffman, Jules TygielARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties Get access The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties. By Tygiel Jules. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii + 398 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…

  • Water and the City: The Next Century ed. by Howard Rosen, Ann D. Keating

    Abraham HoffmanARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

    828 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Water and the City: The Next Century. Edited by Howard Rosen and Ann D. Keating. Chicago: Public Works Historical Society, 1991. Pp. xiv + 385; figures, tables, references. $25.00 (paper). In 1991, in celebration of its centennial, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago hosted a four-day conference on “Water and the City,” inviting participants from all over the world to sessions dea…

  • Water and the City: The Next Century

    Abraham Hoffman, Howard Rosen et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

  • Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 by Robert Kelley

    Abraham HoffmanARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 403 dedicated reader to find. It is sad, however, that Princeton University Press would publish such a poorly written book without some more drastic editing. Vern L. Bullough Dr. Bullough is SUNY Distinguished Professor at State University College of New York at Buffalo. One of his specialties is the history of medicine and public health. His latest work is a textbook on Nursing in the Community (St. Louis, 199…

  • Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986

    Abraham Hoffman, Robert KelleyARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

  • A Guide to the History of California

    Abraham Hoffman, Doyce B Nunis et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1990

  • An Oklahoma Tragedy: The Shooting of the Mexican Students, 1931

    David G Gutiérrez, Abraham Hoffman et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1989

    Journal Article An Oklahoma Tragedy: The Shooting of the Mexican Students, 1931 and Gringo Justice Get access An Oklahoma Tragedy: The Shooting of the Mexican Students, 1931. By Hoffman Abraham. (El Paso: Texas Western Press/University of Texas, 1987. 75 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $10.00, cloth; $5.00, paper.)Gringo Justice. By Mirande Alfredo. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987. xii + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, bib…

  • Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley

    Abraham Hoffman, P ZavellaARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1989

    Journal Article Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley Get access Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. By Zavella Patricia. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xviii + 191 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00, cloth; $10.95, paper.) Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Los Angeles Unified School District Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…

  • The Writing of Chicano Urban History: From Bare Beginnings to Significant Studies

    Open AccessAbraham HoffmanARTICLEJournal of Urban History1986Cited by: 1

  • A Community under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945-1975

    Abraham Hoffman, Rodolfo F AcuñaARTICLEJournal of American History1985Cited by: 4

    Journal Article A Community under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945–1975. By Rodolfo F. Acuña. (Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984. xvi + 523 pp. Maps and notes. Paper, $21.95.) Get access Abraham Hoffman Abraham Hoffman Benjamin Franklin High School, Los Angeles Unified School District Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…

  • Land into Water-Water into Land: A History of Water Management in Florida

    Abraham Hoffman, Nelson Manfred BlakeARTICLETechnology and Culture1984

  • Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy

    Judith Powers, Abraham HoffmanARTICLETechnology and Culture1983