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References


Alagona, Peter S. and Clinton F. Smith. “Mirage in the Making
 Mojave Dreams.” Boom: A Journal of California v. 2 no. 3 (2012): 25-44.
 
Anker, Peder. “The closed world of ecological architecture.” Journal of Architecture v. 10, no. 5 (2006): 527-552.
 
Bargainnier, Earl F. “The Sahara of the 1920's: Popular Images of ‘Araby’.” Studies in Popular Culture v. 8 no. 1 (1985): 37-45.
 
Beardsley, John. “Earthworks: Landscape After Modernism.” In Denatured Visions: Landscape and Culture in the Twentieth Century,  
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Brosman, Catharine Savage. “Desert.” The American Scholar v. 70 no. 2 (2001): 111-122.
 
Campbell, Elizabeth W. Crozer. “Archaeological Problems in the Southern California Deserts." American Antiquity v. no. 4 (1936):
                 295-300.
 
Colston, R. E. “Life in the Egyptian Deserts.” Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York v. 11 (1879): 301-333.

Deverell, William. “Fighting Words: The Significance of the American West in the History of the United States.” Western Historical
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Goldring, Elizabeth. “‘Desert Sun/Desert Moon’ and the SKY ART Manifest.” Leonardo v. 20 no. 4 (1987): 339-348.
 
Gotlieb, Marc. “Figures of Sublimity in Orientalist Painting.” Studies in the History of Art v. 74 (2009): 316-341.
 
Hailey, Charlie. Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
 
Head, Jeffrey. No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011. 

Hennessey, Gregg R. “Deserts, Politics, and Culture: The Creation of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.” Southern California Quarterly
                 v. 81 no. 2 (1999): 247-277.
 
Hetzler, Florence M. “Causality: Ruin Time and Ruins.” Leonardo v. 21 no. 1 (1988): 51-55.
 
Johnson, Susan Lee. “‘A Memory Sweet to Soldiers’: The Significance of Gender in the History of the ‘American West’.” Western
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Lavin, Sylvia. Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
 
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Luke, Timothy W. Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
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Masco, Joseph. “Desert Modernism.” Cabinet v. 13 (2004): 1-16.

Neel, Susan Rhoades. “Tourism and the American West: New Departures.” Pacific Historical Review v. 65 no. 4 (1996): 517-523.
 
Nisbet, James. Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.
 
Norris, Frank. “On Beyond Reason: Homesteading in the California Desert, 1885-1940.” Southern California Quarterly v. 64 no. 4
                 (1982): 297-312.
 
Ponte, Alessandra and Marisa Trubiano. “The House of Light and Entropy: Inhabiting the American Desert.” Assemblage no. 30
                 (1996): 12-31.
 
Rico, Monica. “Sir William Drummond Stewart: Aristocratic Masculinity in the American West.” Pacific Historical Review v. 76 no. 2
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Ronald, Ann. The New West of Edward Abbey. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2000.
 
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Spud, Catherine Holder. “Brothels and Saloons: An Archaeology of Gender in the American West.” Historical Archaeology v. 39 n. 1
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Stoler, Ann Laura. “Imperial Debris: Reflections on Ruins and Ruination.” Cultural Anthropology v. 23 no. 2 (2008): 191-219.
 
Teague, David. “A Paradoxical Legacy: Some New Contexts for John C. Van Dyke's ‘The Desert’.” Western American Literature v. 30 no.
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Van Dyke, John C. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901.

Weiner, Stephan. The Desert Modernists: The Architects Who Envisioned Midcentury Modern Palm Springs. Palm Springs, CA: Desert
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