Jottings in Southern California History
Author: Marco Ross Newmark
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Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781258325183
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Author: Marco Ross Newmark
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Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781258325183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marco Ross Newmark
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonard Pitt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780520016378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK""Decline of the Californios" is one of those rare works that first gained fame for its pathbreaking and original nature, but which now maintains its status as a classic of California and ethnic history."--Douglas Monroy, author of "Thrown among Strangers"
Author: Leonard Pitt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780520219588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharts the social and ethnic history of Spanish-speaking California and the displacement of California's Mexican ranching elite following the Mexican War and the gold rush of 1849.
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986-12-04
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0199923264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Griswold del Castillo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1982-08-30
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780520047730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An imponant book .... [which] provides the first detailed analysis of the changes that transformed one of the most important Mexican pueblos in the Southwest into a Chicano urban barrio. Using quantitative data together with traditional secondary and primary historical sources, the author traces the major socio-economic, political, and racial factors that evolved during the post-Mexican War decades and that created a subordinate status for Mexican Americans in a burgeoning American city."--Western Historical Quarterly "Griswold del Castillo's history of the Mexican community during the first decades of the 'American era' . . . concentrates on the mechanisms which the community adopted as it was confronted by changes in the economic structure of the region, the in-migration of Anglo-Americans as well as Mexicans, and by the effects of racial segregation on the community. [The] aim is to reveal the history of a community undergoing rapid social and economic change, not to write the history of one society's domination of another."--UCLA Historical Journal "Los Angeles Chicanos emerge not as the homogeneous, passive victims of stereotypical fame, but as internally diverse, active participants in the simultaneous struggles to maintain their socio-cultural fabric and to capture a part of the American Dream. The author effectively demonstrates that the Chicano decline occurred not because of cultural weaknesses but as the almost inevitable resu lt of Anglo prejudice, numerical domination, and control of political and economic institutions. . . . an admirable book and a fine piece of scholarship.''--American Historical Review
Author: Norton B. Stern
Publisher: Glendale, Calif. : A. H. Clark Company
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederic Cople Jaher
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9780252009327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: ShaunAnne Tangney
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0826355781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets of the twentieth century, this work signals the sea change in Jeffers scholarship, as well as the increasing breadth and depth of criticism of the literature of the American West. The essays assembled here highlight issues and theories critical to Jeffers studies, among them the advance of ecocriticism, the reimagining of regionalism as place studies, the continuing development of cultural studies and the new historicism, the increasingly poignant vector of science and literature, the new formalism, particularly as it pertains to narrative verse, and the glaring omission of feminist analysis in Jeffers scholarship. Jeffers has always appealed to a wider audience than many twentieth-century poets, and this book will speak to that general readership as well as to scholars and students.