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Los Angeles
Portrait of a City
Av David L. Ulin, Kevin Starr m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
728 kr
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From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city’s cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It traces the city’s development from the 1880s real …
Golden Dreams
California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
Av Kevin Starr
Häftad, 2011
357 kr
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A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we …
Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915
Av Kevin Starr
Inbunden, 1994
865 kr
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Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Av Kevin Starr
Häftad, 1994
451 kr
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Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Inventing the Dream
California Through the Progressive Era
Av Kevin Starr
Häftad, 1986
458 kr
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This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that …
Material Dreams
Southern California through the 1920s
Av Kevin Starr
Inbunden, 1990
959 kr
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This is the third volume in Americans and the Californian Dream, Kevin Starr's series of books on the development of California and its meaning for the American experience.
Material Dreams
Southern California through the 1920s
Av Kevin Starr
Häftad, 1992
508 kr
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The third of Kevin Starr's monumental studies of the origins and development of the California dream covers the decade, which perhaps glittered the most brightly in the history of the Golden State - the 1920s. This was the era of colourful, larger-than-life individuals - from movie stars to …
The Dream Endures
California Enters the 1940s
Av Kevin Starr
Inbunden, 1997
884 kr
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What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the …
Endangered Dreams
The Great Depression in California
Av Kevin Starr
Inbunden, 1996
884 kr
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Endangered Dreams is the fourth book in a series by Kevin Starr on Californian life and culture under the general title Americans and the California Dream. This book focuses on California during the Great Depression of the 1930s, specifically on its politics, labour disputes, and major building …
Endangered Dreams
The Great Depression in California
Av Kevin Starr
Häftad, 1999
261 kr
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In Endangered Dreams, Kevin Starr paints a portrait of California during the Great Depression that is both detailed and panoramic, offering a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension. Out of a shattered decade of economic and social dislocation, he …
Golden Dreams
California in an Age of Abundance 1950-1963
Av Kevin Starr
Inbunden, 2009
638 kr
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A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we …
The Dream Endures
California Enters the 1940s
Av Kevin Starr
Häftad, 2002
508 kr
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The fifth volume in Starr's classic history of California, The Dream Endures shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "the good life." Starr illustrates the ways the good life prospered in California--in film, fiction, leisure, and …
Embattled Dreams
California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
Av Kevin Starr
Häftad, 2003
311 kr
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The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II.During the 1940s California ascended to a …
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 1973
340 kr
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Examining California''s formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Embattled Dreams
California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 2002
227 kr
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The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr''s monumental Americans and the California Dream-- Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II. During the 1940s California ascended to …
Endangered Dreams
The Great Depression in California
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 1996
168 kr
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California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story …
Golden Dreams
California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 2009
252 kr
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A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr''s acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California …
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 1986
302 kr
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Examining California''s formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Inventing the Dream
California through the Progressive Era
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 1986
171 kr
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This second volume in Kevin Starr''s passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that …
Material Dreams
Southern California through the 1920s
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 1990
510 kr
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Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and …
Endangered Dreams
The Great Depression in California
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 1996
168 kr
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California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story …
Embattled Dreams
California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 2002
227 kr
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The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr''s monumental Americans and the California Dream-- Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II. During the 1940s California ascended to …
Dream Endures
California Enters the 1940s
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 2002
353 kr
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What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the …
Golden Dreams
California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 2011
252 kr
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A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr''s acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California …
California
A History
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 2007
146 kr
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California has always been our Shangri-la–the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State’s premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, …
Coast of Dreams
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 2011
80 kr
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In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of …
Rooted in Barbarous Soil
People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
Av Kevin Starr, Richard J. Orsi
Häftad, 2000
529 kr
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Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did 'civilization' appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass …
Golden Gate
The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
Av Kevin Starr
E-bok, 2010
141 kr
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The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wild headlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of California and America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spot commensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completed in 1937, also …
