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Pages: 494
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Language: en
Pages: 231
Pages: 231
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 415
Pages: 415
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-12-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 431
Pages: 431
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 513
Pages: 513
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-12-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic