Inventing the dream : California through the Progressive Era / Kevin Starr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986Description: xi, 380 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. 24 cmISBN:
  • 195034899
LOC classification:
  • F 867 .St28 1986
Summary: 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 different society has emerged in its place, " writes Starr. www.alibris.com
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American Learning Resource American Learning Resource Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center F 867 .St28 1985 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 9ALRC201100669

Includes index.

Series statement from author's Material dreams.

Bibliography: p. 340-366.

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 different society has emerged in its place, " writes Starr. www.alibris.com

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