Books by Charlotte Brooks

A guide to the stunning collection of Orchid Award Portraits from the Lindley Collections at the Royal Horticultural Society.

Botanical Illustration: a genre of art that endeavours faithfully to depict and represent the form, colour and detail of a plant. The perfect book for the lover of horticulture, as well as an excellent reference both for botanists and aspiring artists, this collection also includes an introductory essay that delves into the history of the RHS.

During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. This book looks at the divergent ways that Chinese Americans in these two cities balanced domestic and international pressures during the tense Cold War era.

Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. The author examines this transformation through the lens of California's urban housing markets.