Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era
by Starr, Kevin
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0195042344
- ISBN 13
- 9780195042344
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New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. xi, 380 pages, [22] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. "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 Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has emerged in its place,' writes Starr. As he recreates the 'lost California,' Starr examines the rich variety of elements that figured in the growth of the Southern California way of life: the Spanish/Mexican roots, the fertile land, the Mediterranean-like climate, the special styles in architecture, the rise of Hollywood. He gives us a broad array of engaging (and often eccentric) characters: from Harrision Gray Otis to Helen Hunt Jackson to Cecil B. DeMille. Whether discussing the growth of winemaking or the burgeoning of reform movements, Starr keeps his central theme in sharp focus: how Californians defined their identity to themselves and to the nation." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era
- Author
- Starr, Kevin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0195042344
- ISBN 13
- 9780195042344
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York and Oxford
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; X: Californiana;
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