Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past - Couverture rigide

Deverell, William F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520218698 ISBN 13 : 9780520218697

Editeur : University of California Press, 2004

Synopsis

Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. "Whitewashed Adobe" considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920s. In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriating - and even obliterating - the region's connections to Mexican places and people.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (California, 1994); coauthor of The West in the History of the Nation (2000) and Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles (California, 2000); and coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001) and California Progressivism Revisited (1994), both from California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520218698
• ISBN 13: 9780520218697
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 349
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