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- ↑ William Deverell (2005). Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24667-6.
- ↑ William Deverell; Greg Hise (2006). Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles. University of Pittsburgh Pre. ISBN 978-0-8229-5939-7.
- ↑ William Deverell; Greg Hise (2014). A Companion to Los Angeles. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-79805-8.
- ↑ William Deverell; Greg Hise (2016). Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990. Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West. ISBN 978-0-692-77396-3.
