Review: Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego, by Sandra E. Bonura

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Book Review| November 01 2021 Review: Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego, by Sandra E. Bonura Sandra E. Bonura. Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. 440 pp. Hardcover $34.95. Rowena Gray Rowena Gray Rowena Gray is an economic historian who researches crime, housing markets, and technological change over the course of American history. She works at the University of California at Merced, and earned a PhD in economics at the University of California, Davis. She is now working on her first book, on housing affordability in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2021) 98 (4): 120–122. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2021.98.4.120 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rowena Gray; Review: Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego, by Sandra E. Bonura. California History 1 November 2021; 98 (4): 120–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2021.98.4.120 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentCalifornia History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California2021 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.