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Southern California country : an island on the land / by Carey McWilliams ; edited by Erskine Caldwell.
LIBRA F867 .M25
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980.
- Series:
- American folkways
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- California, Southern--History.
- California, Southern.
- Southern California.
- California, Southern--Description and travel.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schuyler, Robert L., 1947- (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 387 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1946]
- Contents:
- South of Tehachapi
- The Indian in the closet
- Californios and Mexicanos
- The growth of a legend
- Cathay in the South
- The folklore of climatology
- Years of the boom
- The cultural landscape
- "I'm a stranger here myself"
- Water! Water! Water!
- The Citrus Belt
- The sociology of the boom
- "Don't shoot Los Angeles"
- The politics of Utopia
- The Los Angeles archipelago
- The island of Hollywood
- A slight case of cultural confusion.
- Notes:
- Map on lining-paper.
- "First printing"--T.p. verso.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980. Southern California country.
- OCLC:
- 488109
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