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Southern California through the 1920s

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An edition of Material Dreams (1990)

Material dreams

Southern California through the 1920s

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Prophesying through water : hydraulic visions and historical metaphors -- Imperial ironies : the dreams and realities of social irrigation -- Aqueduct cities : foundations of urban empire -- From Oz to Oildorado : the rise of Los Angeles in the 1920s -- Boosting Babylon : planning, development, and ballyhoo in jazz-age Los Angeles -- The people of the city : oligarchs, babbitts, and folks -- USC, electricity, music, and cops : the emergence of institutional Los Angeles -- Designs for living : architecture in southern California, from the Bradbury Building to the Watts Towers -- Anacapa and Arcadia : the Santa Barbara heritage -- Castles in Spain : the Santa Barbara alternative -- Opinion and the aristocracy of art : the search for common ground in emergent Los Angeles -- The book triumphant : bibliophilia and Bohemia in greater Los Angeles -- On the blue train through Dijon : Pasadena begins its literary career -- Material dreams (from contents)

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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
453

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Subjects

History, Popular Print Disabled Books, California, history, Los angeles (calif.), history, California, economic conditions, California, social life and customs

Places

Southern California, Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Material Dreams: Southern California Through The 1920's
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Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s (Americans & the California Dream)
October 17, 1991, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Material dreams
Material dreams: Southern California through the 1920s
1990, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-425) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Americans and the California dream

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
979.4/9
Library of Congress
F867 .S82 1990, F867.S82 1990

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Pagination
xiv, 453 p. :
Number of pages
453

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2196481M
ISBN 10
0195044878
LCCN
89016122
OCLC/WorldCat
20012405
Library Thing
73755
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1844004

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OL3266239W

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