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Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s Hardcover - 1990
by Kevin Starr
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream. In Material Dreams, he turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920's, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles.
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- Title Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s
- Author Kevin Starr
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1990-04-12
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780195044874 / 0195044878
- Weight 1.94 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 9.38 x 6.32 x 1.38 in (23.83 x 16.05 x 3.51 cm)
- Reading level 1520
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles (Calif.) - History, California, Southern - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89016122
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.49
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- Library Journal, 12/01/1989, Page 0
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Oxford University Press, USA, 1990. Hardcover. 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 marvelously diverse (and diverting) (The New York Times Book Review) and rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people (Los Angeles Times). Now, 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. In a lively and eminently readable narrative, Starr reveals how Los Angeles 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…
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