The Octopus: A Story of California (Häftad)
avFrank Norris, Kevin Starr
ISBN: 9780140187700 - UTGIVEN: 1994-08Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, "The Octopus" is a stunning novel of the waning days of the [...]
Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920's (Inbunden)
avKevin Starr
ISBN: 9780195044874 - UTGIVEN: 1990-07-12
Dream Endures, The: California Enters the 1940s (Inbunden)
avKevin Starr
ISBN: 9780195100792 - UTGIVEN: 1997-03-01
Endangered Dreams: Great Depression in California (Inbunden)
avKevin Starr
ISBN: 9780195100808 - UTGIVEN: 1996-01-01
Embattled Dreams California in War and Peace 1940 to 1950 (Häftad)
avKevin Starr
ISBN: 9780195168976 - UTGIVEN: 200309The 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 ne[...]
California (A History) (Häftad)
avKevin Starr
ISBN: 9780812977530 - UTGIVEN: 2007-03A definitive, single-volume history of the Golden State ranges from the earliest Native American cultures, through the Spanish and Mexican eras, the Gold Rush, and rise of Hollywood, to the twenty-first century, chronicling the events, places, and personalities that have shaped California. Reprint. [...]
Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge (Inbunden)
avKevin Starr
ISBN: 9781596915343 - UTGIVEN: 2010-07
Los Angeles, Portrait of a City (Inbunden)
avStarr, Kevin, Ulin, David L
ISBN: 9783836502917 - UTGIVEN: 2009-10-25A pictorial history of the world's most enigmatic city
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 his[...]
