A Literary History Of Southern California

Author : Franklin Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520347803
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Literary History of Southern California written by Franklin Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Author : Susan Suntree
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803231989
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Sites written by Susan Suntree and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sacred Sites honors the power and beauty of our indigenous heritage and homeland. By knowing our history we better understand the present and our journey into the future."---Anthony Morales, tribal chair, Gabrielino Tongva Council of San Gabriel --

Author : Franklin Dickerson Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Literary History of Southern California written by Franklin Dickerson Walker and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the indigenous themes that emerged are the contrast between the Spanish and the Yankee ways of doing things, the displacement of the Spanish Californian, and the mistreatment of the Mission Indians." Dust jacket.

Author : Marco Ross Newmark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258325183
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jottings in Southern California History written by Marco Ross Newmark and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019507260X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. Although he treats readers to intriguing side trips to Santa Barbara and Pasadena, Starr focuses here mainly on Los Angeles, revealing how this major city arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, propounded the importance of water in Southern California's future, and how such figures as the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles) and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil ("Yes it's oil, oil, oil / that makes LA boil," went the official drinking song of the Uplifters Club), the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture (such as the remarkably innovative Bradbury Building and its eccentric, neophyte designer, George Wyman), the impact of the automobile on city planning, the great antiquarian book collections, the Hollywood film community, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Kevin Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.

Author : W. W. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258783204
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panorama written by W. W. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Miller Guinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical and Biographical Record of Southern California written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297753X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California written by Kevin Starr and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco

Author : Sheldon Pollock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520228219
Total Pages : 1103 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Cultures in History written by Sheldon Pollock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-19 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Stan Yogi
Publisher : Great Valley Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highway 99 written by Stan Yogi and published by Great Valley Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the myths of the Yokuts Indians, to stories and poems by famous contemporary writers, this anthology showcases the best literature of Californias Great Central Valley, and provides a rich view of the regions physical and emotional landscape