California Memories 1857-1930
Author | : Jackson Alpheus Graves |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258173302 |
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Author | : Jackson Alpheus Graves |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258173302 |
Author | : Phoebe S. Kropp |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520931653 |
The characteristic look of Southern California, with its red-tiled roofs, stucco homes, and Spanish street names suggests an enduring fascination with the region’s Spanish-Mexican past. In this engaging study, Phoebe S. Kropp reveals that the origins of this aesthetic were not solely rooted in the Spanish colonial period, but arose in the early twentieth century, when Anglo residents recast the days of missions and ranchos as an idyllic golden age of pious padres, placid Indians, dashing caballeros and sultry senoritas. Four richly detailed case studies uncover the efforts of Anglo boosters and examine the responses of Mexican and Indian people in the construction of places that gave shape to this cultural memory: El Camino Real, a tourist highway following the old route of missionaries; San Diego’s world’s fair, the Panama-California Exposition; the architecturally- and racially-restricted suburban hamlet Rancho Santa Fe; and Olvera Street, an ersatz Mexican marketplace in the heart of Los Angeles. California Vieja is a compelling demonstration of how memory can be more than nostalgia. In Southern California, the Spanish past became a catalyst for the development of the region’s built environment and public culture, and a civic narrative that still serves to marginalize Mexican and Indian residents.
Author | : Franklin Walker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520347803 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
Author | : Jackson Alpheus Graves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Los Angeles County Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1364 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : California Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 940 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Clark Davis |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 2001-10-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801862755 |
The story of the early decades of American big business, when white-collar jobs were new and their future uncertain America's white-collar workers form the core of the nation's corporate economy and its expansive middle class. But just a century ago, white-collar jobs were new and their future anything but certain. In Company Men Clark Davis places the corporate office at the heart of American social and cultural history, examining how the nation's first generation of white-collar men created new understandings of masculinity, race, community, and success—all of which would dominate American experience for decades to come. Company Men is set in Los Angeles, the nation's "corporate frontier" of the early twentieth century. Davis shows how this California city—often considered on the fringe of American society for the very reason that it was new and growing so rapidly—displayed in sharp contours how America's corporate culture developed. The young men who left their rural homes for southern California a century ago not only helped build one of the world's great business centers, but also redefined middle-class values and morals. Of interest to students of business history, gender studies, and twentieth-century culture, this work focuses on the "company man" as a pivotal actor in the saga of modern American history.
Author | : Robert M. Fogelson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1993-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520913615 |
Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930—a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II.
Author | : William F. Deverell |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1994-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520917750 |
Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial America from the middle of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth. Americans clamored for the progress and prosperity that railroads would surely bring, and no railroad was more crucial for California than the transcontinental line linking East to West. With Gold Rush prosperity fading, Californians looked to the railroad as the state's new savior. But social upheaval and economic disruption came down the tracks along with growth and opportunity. Analyzing the changes wrought by the railroad, William Deverell reveals the contradictory roles that technology and industrial capitalism played in the lives of Americans. That contrast was especially apparent in California, where the gigantic corporate "Octopus"—the Southern Pacific Railroad—held near-monopoly status. The state's largest employer and biggest corporation, the S.P. was a key provider of jobs and transportation—and wielder of tremendous political and financial clout. Deverell's lively study is peopled by a rich and disparate cast: railroad barons, newspaper editors, novelists, union activists, feminists, farmers, and the railroad workers themselves. Together, their lives reflect the many tensions—political, social, and economic—that accompanied the industrial transition of turn-of-the-century America.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 2832 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : American literature |
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