A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles, Paperback - James Miller Guinn

Few states of the United States have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little t...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Probably much of the confusio...

Reducere. William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a sel...

The "Soul of" collection is a new approach to the art of travelling that consists of vagabonding around, chance encounters, and unforgettable exper...

For the first time, Anton Wagner's groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English.P...

Reducere. DescriptionFor 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich trad...

Reducere. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in ...

DescriptionFor 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich trad...

DescriptionDreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depressi...

Reducere. In the early 20th century, there was no better example of a classic American downtown than Los Angeles. Since World War II, Los Angeles's Historic ...

Description"Put on your hiking shoes, pack your binoculars, and rediscover the City of Angels." --Westways Magazine Los Angeles may have a reputati...

Reducere. In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encount...

Reducere. Mi Raza Primero is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale-in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest populat...

DescriptionBetween 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. ...

DescriptionWhether you want to wander the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, lounge poolside in Palm Springs, or marvel at the San Diego Zoo, t...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of writings, reflections, and interviews from political philosopher and critical theorist Brad Evans, written between 2010 ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. On a chilly Monday morning in 1935, a young maid opened the garage door of a Southern California seaside villa onto a grim scene. Her employer, a p...

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its...

An action-packed historical novel whose charismatic characters take the reader from the roaring twenties to the fiery nineties in America's favorit...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionA breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by i...

Genocide involves significant death and trauma. Yet the enormous scope of genocide comes into view when one looks at the factors that lead to mass ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): George J. SanchezNumber of pages: 390Collection: American CrossroadsPublication date: 2022Dimen...

Reducere. Updated for the first time in over twenty years, the third edition of Insects of the Los Angeles Basin is a beautifully produced and richly illustr...

Reducere. DescriptionHow Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy Street food markets have become wildly popul...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

Reducere. Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in t...

Reducere. This volume presents a pictorial history of Los Angeles hotels downtown, in Hollywood, and along the Wilshire Boulevard corridor from the late 19th...

Presents an approach to moral philosophy. This work of dry theory, is intended for those intrigued by the questions about goodness and human life.

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

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DescriptionSouth Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depict...

Reducere. Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a showcase for ar...

Reducere. Los Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of the product the bigges...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both th...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

Reducere. A fascinating tour of Los Angeles told through vintage images. The City of Angels' story is told through a fun and colorful collection of old photo...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe world-famous Miracle Mile in Los Angeles was shaped into a great commercial and cultural district by the city's tremendous urban exp...

Reducere. In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song "The Tide Is High, " or...