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Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
ISBN: 9780520224964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass violence. Yet, in the very midst of this turbulence, social and cultural forms emerged, gained strength, spread, and took hold. Rooted in Barbarous Soil, Volume 3 in the four-volume California History Sesquicentennial Series, is the only book of its kind to examine gold rush society and...
Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial e...
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260,98 zł |
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Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California
ISBN: 9780195100808 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than Kevin Starr, in his acclaimed series of gripping social and cultural histories. Now Starr carries his account into the 1930s, when the political extremes that threatened so much of the Depression-ravaged world--fascism and communism--loomed large across the California landscape.
In... California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place wh...
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173,32 zł |
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Americans and the California Dream: 1850-1915
ISBN: 9780195016444 / Angielski / Twarda / 1973 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the late nineteenth century, California became the cutting edge of the American dream, the final frontier both geographically and in the minds of the many men and women who went there to pursue their destinies. In this fascinating volume Keven Starr examines California's formative years to discover the orgins of the California dreams and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but on the rest of the country.
In the late nineteenth century, California became the cutting edge of the American dream, the final frontier both geographically and in the minds of t...
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173,32 zł |
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Golden Dreams
ISBN: 9780195153774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence.
Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight... A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the Califo...
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156,12 zł |
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The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s
ISBN: 9780195157970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fifth volume in Starr's classic history of California, The Dream Endures shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in the 1930s into what is now known as "the good life." Starr illustrates the ways the good life prospered in California--in film, fiction, leisure, and architecture. Starr looks at the newly important places where Californians lived out this sunny lifestyle: areas like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein...
The fifth volume in Starr's classic history of California, The Dream Endures shows how Californians rebounded from the Great Depression to emerge in t...
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146,30 zł |
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Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s
ISBN: 9780195044874 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history,...
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The fir...
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173,32 zł |
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Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era
ISBN: 9780195042344 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 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... 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 eme...
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126,64 zł |
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The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s
ISBN: 9780195100792 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to...
What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, s...
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173,32 zł |
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California (a History)
ISBN: 9780812977530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. California has always been our Shangri-la-the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State's premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California's history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story of a place at once quintessentially American and utterly unique.
Arguing that America's most populous state has always been blessed with both spectacular natural beauty and astonishing human diversity, Starr unfolds a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and... California has always been our Shangri-la-the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State's premier hist...
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95,40 zł |
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Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California
ISBN: 9780195118025 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than Kevin Starr, in his acclaimed series of gripping social and cultural histories. Now Starr carries his account into the 1930s, when the political extremes that threatened so much of the Depression-ravaged world--fascism and communism--loomed large across the California landscape.
In... California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place wh...
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70,13 zł |
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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
ISBN: 9780195042337 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and...
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111,90 zł |
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Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
ISBN: 9780199832491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence. A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the Cal... |
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121,38 zł |
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Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
ISBN: 9780195168976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II.
During the 1940s California ascended to a new, more powerful role in the nation. Starr describes the vast expansion of the war industry and California's role as the "arsenal of democracy" (especially the significant part women played in the aviation industry). He examines the politics of the state: Earl Warren as the dominant... The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Emba...
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87,33 zł |
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Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s
ISBN: 9780195072600 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history,...
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The fir...
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116,81 zł |
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The Valley of the Moon
ISBN: 9780520218208 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, The Valley of the Moon traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through Central and Northern California in search of land they can farm independently--a journey that echoes Jack London's own escape from urban poverty. As London lost hope in the prospects of the socialist party and organized labor, he began researching a scientific and environmentally sound approach to farming. In his novel, it is Saxon, London's most fully realized heroine, who embodies these concerns. The...
A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, The Valley of the Moon traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland ...
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125,54 zł |
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The Octopus: A Story of California
ISBN: 9780140187700 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, The Octopus is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad represented everything they despised: consolidation, organization, conformity. But Norris idealizes no one in this epic depiction of the volatile situation, for the farmers themselves...
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on a...
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112,75 zł |
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I'll Never Tell: Odyssey of a Rock & Roll Priest
ISBN: 9781937818418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Slyly humorous, engaging and illumined with lightning bolts of religious insight" - that's what Kevin Starr had to say about the new memoir by Monsignor Harry G. Schlitt. I'll Never Tell: Odyssey of a Rock & Roll Priest chronicles encounters with Paul Lynde, James Brown, Joan Crawford, assorted cardinals and a handful of popes, including one emeritus. Set against the backdrop of world capitals, this social historic narrative spanning fifty years depicts the epic journey of a Catholic priest through changing mores and contemporary life. "Slyly humorous, engaging and illumined with lightning bolts of religious insight" - that's what Kevin Starr had to say about the new memoir by Mon... |
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115,06 zł |
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The Los Angeles Central Library: Building an Architectural Icon, 1872-1933
ISBN: 9781606064900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Eminent architectural historian Breisch draws on a wealth of primary source material to tell the story of one of the most important American buildings of the twentieth century. In the process, he presents a richly documented case study illuminating the formation of an indispensable modern public institution: the American public library.
Eminent architectural historian Breisch draws on a wealth of primary source material to tell the story of one of the most important American buildings...
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218,40 zł |
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