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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
Inventing Great Neck
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Judith S. Goldstein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Although frequently recognized as home to well-known personalities, Great Neck is also notable for the conspicuous way it transformed itself from a Gentile comm
Inventing the Dream
Language: en
Pages: 415
Authors: Kevin Starr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-12-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
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
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