Inventing the dream : California through the Progressive Era / Kevin Starr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starr, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California, Southern--History.

California, Southern.

California, Southern--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. ""How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically different society has emerged in its place,"" writes Starr.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""1 Place, Patterns, Premises""; ""2 Early Sojourners and Formulations""; ""3 Art and Life in the Turn-of-the-Century Southland""; ""4 Pasadena and the Arroyo: Two Modes of Bohemia""; ""5 Works, Days, Georgic Beginnings""; ""6 Arthur Page Brown and the Dream of San Francisco""; ""7 Reforming California""; ""8 Progressivism and After""; ""9 Stories and Dreams: The Movies Come to Southern California""; ""10 Hollywood, Mass Culture, and the Southern California Experience""; ""Bibliographical Essay""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography: p. 340-366 and index.

ISBN:

0-19-972886-0

9786610439614

1-4237-3604-4

1-60129-617-7

OCLC:

826492159