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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-10-27 - Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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California has long been a bellwether state -- a place where crucial trends that eventually spread throughout the U.S. first take root. Its national and interna
Embattled Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Kevin Starr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This volume deals with the years of World War II and after. In the 1940s California changed from a regional centre into the dominant economic, social and cultur
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Language: en
Pages: 513
Authors: Kevin Starr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-12-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic
Endangered Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 431
Authors: Kevin Starr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 ho
Material Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 494
Authors: Kevin Starr
Categories: California, Southern
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to Califor