Early American Newspapers and Periodicals of California and the West
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 115
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Author: Howell, John, firm, booksellers
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 115
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Publisher: San Francisco : W.R. Howell, John Howell-Books
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 115
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 800
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Published: 18??
Total Pages: 115
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara Cloud
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2008-10-22
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0810125080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWestern expansion and journalism have had a symbiotic relationship. By examining this relationship along its entire timeline, this book argues that newspapers played a crucial role in pushing aside both wildlife and Native Americans to make room for the settlers who would become their readers.
Author: James E. Smalldon
Publisher: Alhambra, Calif. : Paper Americana Press, 23 cm.
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 114
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cameron Blevins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0190053690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
Author: Josh Sides
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-01-27
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780520939868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass—embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South—is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities—and limits—quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.