California vieja : culture and memory in a modern American place / Phoebe S. Kropp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Phoebe S. K. (Phoebe Schroeder Kropp), 1970-

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--California, Southern.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Spanish colonial--California, Southern.

Architecture, Spanish colonial.

Architecture--California, Southern--20th century.

Architecture.

Landscapes--California, Southern.

Landscapes.

Mexican Americans--California--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans.

Memory--Social aspects--California.

Memory.

Memory--Social aspects.

Social conditions.

El Camino Real (Calif.).

California.

Southern California.

Physical Description:

xx, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

Summary:

A history of how Anglo Californians built the Spanish Fantasy past onto their landscape--the El Camino Real to the missions, Olvera Street, the Panama-California Exposition, and the whites-only housing development Rancho Santa Fe--and an exploration of how historical memory functions in the present.

Contents:

Part 1 Locating the Past

1 Los Dias Pasados: Tales from Nineteenth-Century California 19

2 The Road: El Camino Real and Mission Nostalgia 47

3 The Fair: Panama-California Exposition and Regional Ambitions 103

Part 2 Living with the Past

4 The Home: Rancho Santa Fe and Suburban Style 159

5 The Market: Olvera Street and Urban Space 207

6 Conclusion: The Trouble with Red-Tile Roofs 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-349) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0520243641

OCLC:

61748385

Publisher Number:

9780520243644

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